Top 100 National Colleges and Universities Rankings in United States – Schools in the National Universities category, such as Yale University and UCLA, offer a full range of undergraduate majors, master’s, and doctoral degrees. These colleges also are committed to producing groundbreaking research.

This Top 100 Colleges Ranking guides are calculated by cost, Fall Acceptance Rate, Peer Assessment Score, Average Freshman Retention Rate, 6-Year Graduate Rate, SAT/ACT 25th – 75th percentiles, 2009 Freshmen in Top 10 percent of high school classes, Classes with under 20 students, and Classes with 50 or more students in 2009 Data – which is not included in this list.