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Much Ado About Nothing

English, Literature & Writing

The Great American Novelists

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl 5-Year Earn
1 Columbia University
New York, NY
New York, NY 160 4% 24% / 76% 8% $64,701 —
2 Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Cambridge, MA 48 3% 27% / 73% 4% $59,403 —
3 New York University
New York, NY
New York, NY 100 8% 30% / 70% 7% — —
4 Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
Princeton, NJ 45 4% 29% / 71% 9% — —
5 Stanford University
Stanford, CA
Stanford, CA 45 4% 31% / 69% 13% $49,911 —
6 University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
Berkeley, CA 261 11% 26% / 74% 4% $53,598 —
7 University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, CA 260 9% 23% / 77% 2% $51,937 —
8 University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Chicago, IL 61 5% 30% / 70% 8% $55,195 —
9 University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia, PA 40 4% 25% / 75% 10% $61,126 —
10 Yale University
New Haven, CT
New Haven, CT 64 4% 36% / 64% 9% $60,505 —

Ink & Quill

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl 5-Year Earn
1 Brown University
Providence, RI
Providence, RI 101 5% 26% / 74% 14% $58,365 —
2 Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
Ithaca, NY 34 7% 24% / 76% 18% $62,393 —
3 Duke University
Durham, NC
Durham, NC 25 5% 32% / 68% 0% $83,004 —
4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Cambridge, MA 2 5% 50% / 50% 0% — —
5 Ohio State University
Columbus, OH
Columbus, OH 137 53% 34% / 66% 1% $50,433 —
6 Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA
University Park, PA 79 55% 24% / 76% 1% $50,993 —
7 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL
Champaign, IL 112 43% 24% / 76% 1% $58,684 —
8 University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
Ann Arbor, MI 87 15% 26% / 74% 1% $59,119 —
9 University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
Austin, TX 194 25% 21% / 79% 1% $62,801 —
10 University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
Charlottesville, VA 100 13% 25% / 75% 0% $65,010 —

Bookworm Elite

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl 5-Year Earn
1 Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ
Tempe, AZ 139 88% 33% / 67% 1% $58,145 —
2 Boston University
Boston, MA
Boston, MA 44 13% 14% / 86% 0% $51,562 —
3 Georgetown University
Washington, DC
Washington, DC 56 9% 29% / 71% 2% $70,435 —
4 Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
Baltimore, MD 24 5% 21% / 79% 4% $62,857 —
5 Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
Evanston, IL 24 7% 25% / 75% 0% $61,760 —
6 University of California, Davis
Davis, CA
Davis, CA 139 37% 29% / 71% 1% $44,357 —
7 University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA
Irvine, CA 153 21% 33% / 67% 0% $46,467 —
8 University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
Santa Barbara, CA 141 26% 27% / 73% 1% $50,879 —
9 University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA 133 44% 28% / 72% 5% $58,845 —
10 University of Wisconsin - Madison
Madison, WI
Madison, WI 72 43% 26% / 74% 1% $57,037 —

Well-Versed

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl 5-Year Earn
1 Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA
Chestnut Hill, MA 56 14% 38% / 63% 0% $62,935 —
2 CUNY City College
New York, NY
New York, NY 62 42% 26% / 74% 2% $52,119 —
3 Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH
Hanover, NH 33 5% 27% / 73% 6% $86,304 —
4 Emory University
Atlanta, GA
Atlanta, GA 47 11% 23% / 77% 13% $58,689 —
5 Indiana University - Bloomington
Bloomington, IN
Bloomington, IN 51 72% 33% / 67% 0% $61,807 —
6 University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, HI
Honolulu, HI 57 55% 26% / 74% 2% $36,919 —
7 University of Illinois Chicago
Chicago, IL
Chicago, IL 64 55% 25% / 75% 0% $51,489 —
8 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
Chapel Hill, NC 105 16% 23% / 77% 1% $57,903 —
9 University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN
Notre Dame, IN 37 9% 22% / 78% 0% $71,362 —
10 University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, CA 72 9% 40% / 60% 4% $57,054 —

Page Turners

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl 5-Year Earn
1 Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
Pittsburgh, PA 8 11% 0% / 100% 0% $94,578 —
2 George Washington University
Washington, DC
Washington, DC 27 28% 26% / 74% 0% $58,265 —
3 Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
East Lansing, MI 81 65% 15% / 85% 0% $56,428 —
4 Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
West Lafayette, IN 95 50% 25% / 75% 2% $46,939 —
5 University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA
La Jolla, CA 69 24% 19% / 81% 1% $44,156 —
6 University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA
Santa Cruz, CA 113 47% 32% / 68% 1% $37,017 —
7 University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA
Iowa City, IA 162 83% 31% / 69% 2% $59,144 —
8 University of Maryland, College Park
College Park, MD
College Park, MD 103 42% 26% / 74% 1% $56,168 —
9 University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
Pittsburgh, PA 194 45% 36% / 64% 1% $62,722 —
10 Washington University in St Louis
Saint Louis, MO
Saint Louis, MO 38 8% 13% / 87% 0% — —

Required Reading

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl 5-Year Earn
1 Brandeis University
Waltham, MA
Waltham, MA 21 45% 14% / 86% 14% $45,588 —
2 Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL
Tallahassee, FL 249 23% 33% / 67% 0% $56,525 —
3 Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA
Atlanta, GA 74 58% 20% / 80% 0% $53,993 —
4 Rice University
Houston, TX
Houston, TX 14 8% 0% / 100% 0% $62,516 —
5 Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY
Syracuse, NY 47 35% 23% / 77% 9% $59,339 —
6 Tufts University
Medford, MA
Medford, MA 34 10% 41% / 59% 3% $58,580 —
7 University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA
Riverside, CA 159 66% 35% / 65% 1% $48,980 —
8 University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, CO
Boulder, CO 91 75% 33% / 67% 4% $38,550 —
9 University of Florida
Gainesville, FL
Gainesville, FL 140 23% 24% / 76% 3% $59,333 —
10 University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS
Lawrence, KS 66 88% 27% / 73% 0% $47,330 —
11 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR
Eugene, OR 77 78% 27% / 73% 1% $43,795 —
12 Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
Nashville, TN 27 4% 22% / 78% 4% $70,289 —