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Colleges with the highest average SAT

Colleges with the highest average SAT

Earnings are medians for graduates who received federal aid, four years after completing the program.

#	College	State	Median earnings, 10 years after entry	Average SAT
1	University of Chicago	Illinois	$91,885	1,554
2	Harvard University	Massachusetts	$101,817	1,553
3	Johns Hopkins University	Maryland	$87,555	1,553
4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Massachusetts	$143,372	1,553
5	Rice University	Texas	$89,718	1,553
6	Stanford University	California	$124,080	1,553
7	Vanderbilt University	Tennessee	$91,565	1,550
8	Columbia University in the City of New York	New York	$102,491	1,547
9	Brown University	Rhode Island	$93,487	1,546
10	Carnegie Mellon University	Pennsylvania	$114,862	1,545
11	University of Pennsylvania	Pennsylvania	$111,371	1,545
12	Franklin W Olin College of Engineering	Massachusetts	$129,455	1,540
13	Duke University	North Carolina	$97,800	1,539
14	Harvey Mudd College	California	$138,687	1,537
15	Princeton University	New Jersey	$110,066	1,535
16	Yale University	Connecticut	$100,533	1,534
17	Dartmouth College	New Hampshire	$97,434	1,533
18	Washington University in St Louis	Missouri	$86,182	1,530
19	New York University	New York	$82,509	1,527
20	Swarthmore College	Pennsylvania	$80,257	1,527
21	Williams College	Massachusetts	$88,665	1,527
22	Northwestern University	Illinois	$89,363	1,526
23	Cornell University	New York	$104,043	1,520
24	Pomona College	California	$77,779	1,520
25	Bowdoin College	Maine	$82,735	1,514
26	Claremont McKenna College	California	$104,736	1,514
27	Emory University-Oxford College	Georgia	$80,137	1,513
28	Tufts University	Massachusetts	$83,214	1,513
29	Vassar College	New York	$71,366	1,513
30	Wellesley College	Massachusetts	$84,803	1,513
31	Wesleyan University	Connecticut	$73,897	1,513
32	University of Notre Dame	Indiana	$99,980	1,510
33	Emory University	Georgia	$80,137	1,507
34	Jewish Theological Seminary of America	New York	$92,751	1,507
35	Northeastern University	Massachusetts	$92,538	1,505
36	Washington and Lee University	Virginia	$94,810	1,504
37	Boston College	Massachusetts	$103,937	1,501
38	Case Western Reserve University	Ohio	$87,989	1,501
39	University of Southern California	California	$92,498	1,501
40	Barnard College	New York	$80,516	1,500
41	Colby College	Maine	$80,490	1,500
42	Middlebury College	Vermont	$76,310	1,500
43	Haverford College	Pennsylvania	$79,966	1,498
44	Amherst College	Massachusetts	$77,644	1,494
45	Georgetown University	District of Columbia	$103,494	1,494
46	Carleton College	Minnesota	$75,525	1,491
47	University of Virginia-Main Campus	Virginia	$86,863	1,488
48	Hamilton College	New York	$78,411	1,487
49	Grinnell College	Iowa	$62,830	1,486
50	Colgate University	New York	$85,139	1,480
51	Rhode Island School of Design	Rhode Island	$68,140	1,480
52	Scripps College	California	$77,539	1,480
53	Smith College	Massachusetts	$64,027	1,480
54	The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art	New York	$83,847	1,480
55	University of Rochester	New York	$79,042	1,480
56	Webb Institute	New York	—	1,480
57	University of Richmond	Virginia	$76,178	1,474
58	Boston University	Massachusetts	$83,238	1,473
59	Brandeis University	Massachusetts	$77,231	1,473
60	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	Michigan	$83,648	1,473
61	Northeastern University Oakland	California	$92,538	1,472
62	Wake Forest University	North Carolina	$78,158	1,469
63	Villanova University	Pennsylvania	$100,423	1,466
64	University of Maryland-College Park	Maryland	$82,860	1,463
65	Occidental College	California	$75,951	1,461
66	William & Mary	Virginia	$73,490	1,458
67	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	North Carolina	$72,200	1,454
68	Davidson College	North Carolina	$81,400	1,448
69	Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus	Georgia	$102,772	1,447
70	Stevens Institute of Technology	New Jersey	$108,772	1,447
71	Bates College	Maine	$69,498	1,446
72	Colorado College	Colorado	$65,222	1,445
73	Tulane University of Louisiana	Louisiana	$63,268	1,443
74	Kenyon College	Ohio	$71,830	1,440
75	Oberlin College	Ohio	$58,343	1,440
76	Babson College	Massachusetts	$123,938	1,435
77	George Washington University	District of Columbia	$90,873	1,433
78	Hillsdale College	Michigan	—	1,433
79	Lehigh University	Pennsylvania	$105,584	1,432
80	Macalester College	Minnesota	$63,878	1,424
81	Southern Methodist University	Texas	$78,354	1,424
82	Mount Holyoke College	Massachusetts	$58,418	1,422
83	Reed College	Oregon	$62,927	1,420
84	Lafayette College	Pennsylvania	$91,410	1,419
85	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Illinois	$81,054	1,418
86	Santa Clara University	California	$109,183	1,417
87	University of Miami	Florida	$75,328	1,416
88	Binghamton University	New York	$80,596	1,415
89	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	New York	$102,051	1,415
90	Connecticut College	Connecticut	$75,001	1,412
91	Fordham University	New York	$85,569	1,412
92	Simpson College	Iowa	$59,274	1,410
93	Stony Brook University	New York	$74,502	1,410
94	Union College	New York	$88,604	1,410
95	Yeshiva University	New York	$71,353	1,410
96	Ohio State University-Main Campus	Ohio	$60,409	1,407
97	Trinity University	Texas	$71,668	1,407
98	Bryn Mawr College	Pennsylvania	$75,217	1,404
99	Colorado School of Mines	Colorado	$97,335	1,403
100	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Wisconsin	$73,792	1,402

Top 100 entries with a recorded value; entries without data are not ranked.