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SAT-required, Highest Medians

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# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employ
1 MIT
Cambridge, MA
Cambridge, MA 1,158 5% 51% / 49% 10% $158,428 100 94% —
2 Caltech
Pasadena, CA
Pasadena, CA 250 4% 55% / 45% 10% $133,624 99 100% —
3 Johns Hopkins
Baltimore, MD
Baltimore, MD 1,393 6% 43% / 57% 15% $94,049 88 91% —
4 Harvard
Cambridge, MA
Cambridge, MA 2,158 4% 48% / 52% 14% $116,868 98 92% —

Above Average in High School is Not Enough

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employ
1 Rice
Houston, TX
Houston, TX 1,352 8% 49% / 51% 12% $109,149 96 94% —
2 U. of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia, PA 2,917 5% 45% / 55% 13% $147,105 100 95% —
3 Yale
New Haven, CT
New Haven, CT 1,860 3% 46% / 54% 11% $115,036 97 94% —
4 Brown
Providence, RI
Providence, RI 1,904 6% 50% / 50% 11% $113,220 97 92% —
5 Northwestern
Evanston, IL
Evanston, IL 2,431 7% 44% / 56% 10% $92,655 86 96% —
6 Vanderbilt
Nashville, TN
Nashville, TN 1,830 5% 49% / 51% 10% $100,153 91 95% —
7 Dartmouth
Hanover, NH
Hanover, NH 1,357 6% 50% / 50% 14% $105,723 94 96% —
8 Cornell
Ithaca, NY
Ithaca, NY 4,187 8% 45% / 55% 10% $109,802 96 94% —
9 U. of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN
Notre Dame, IN 2,198 9% 50% / 50% 6% $104,163 93 95% —
10 Georgetown
Washington, DC
Washington, DC 1,868 14% 42% / 58% 14% $95,834 89 93% —
11 United States Naval Academy
Annapolis, MD
Annapolis, MD 1,064 9% 71% / 29% 1% $84,655 — — —
12 Georgia Tech
Atlanta, GA
Atlanta, GA 4,872 13% 60% / 40% 10% $114,357 99 95% —
13 U. of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
Austin, TX 10,973 22% 42% / 58% 4% $81,043 84 94% —