Top U.S. Undergraduate Colleges

Dartmouth College

• Dartmouth is a private, New Hampshire-based liberal arts college. Unlike most of the other Ivy League schools, Dartmouth confers the majority of its degrees in undergraduate programs. Six-thousand students attended Dartmouth in 2009, including nearly 4,200 undergraduates. Notable Dartmouth alumni include Nelson Rockefeller and Salmon P. Chase.

  Dartmouth College
  Hanover, NH 03755
  603-646-1110
  dartmouth.edu

University of Notre Dame

• Notre Dame is a Catholic research university founded in 1842. An all-male institution for more than 100 years, Notre Dame became a coeducational school in 1972. Women now make up 47 percent of the student body at Notre Dame.

  The majority of Notre Dame's nearly 12,000 students are undergraduates, pursuing degrees in fields such as architecture, liberal arts, science, engineering and business.

  University of Notre Dame
  Notre Dame, IN 46556
  574-631-5000
  nd.edu

University of Maryland--Baltimore County

• The University of Maryland--Baltimore County (UMBC) was the highest-ranked non-Ivy League college on the 2010 "U.S. News & World Report" undergraduate teaching rankings. Located in suburban Catonsville, Maryland, UMBC is a public research university. In fall 2009, approximately 9,600 undergraduates attended UMBC.

  University of Maryland--Baltimore County
  1000 Hilltop Circle
  Baltimore, MD 21250
  410-455-1000
  umbc.edu

Stanford University

• Founded in 1891, Stanford is a large research university in northern California. Less than half of the institution's 15,000 students are undergraduates; nonetheless, Stanford undergraduate instruction ranked fourth overall in the 2010 "U.S. News & World Report" rankings. This is due, in part, to the school's low student-to-faculty ratio: 6.4 to 1 as of 2010.

  Stanford University
  450 Serra Mall
  Stanford, CA 94305
  650-723-2300
  stanford.edu

College of William and Mary

• The College of William and Mary is a public university in Williamsburg, Virginia. Nearly 6,000 undergraduates attended William and Mary in 2009 and the school is known as a "Public Ivy" based on the strength of its educational programs. William and Mary was ranked sixth overall in the 2010 "U.S. News & World Report" rankings of the best undergraduate schools. Forbes also named William and Mary the fourth-best public university in 2009.

  College of William and Mary
  P.O. Box 8795
  Williamsburg, VA 23187
  757-221-4000
  wm.edu