* 2006 National Universities Top Schools ( 출처 : U . S . News & World Report ) 1 . Harvard University ( MA ) 1 . Princeton University ( NJ ) 3 . Yale University ( CT ) 4 . University of Pennsylvania 5 . Duke University ( NC ) 5 . Stanford University ( CA ) 7 . California Institute of Technology 7 . Massachusetts Inst . of Technology 9 . Columbia University ( NY ) 9 . Dartmouth College ( NH ) 11 . Washington University in St . Louis 12 . Northwestern University ( IL ) 13 . Cornell University ( NY ) 13 . Johns Hopkins University ( MD ) 15 . Brown University ( RI ) 15 . University of Chicago 17 . Rice University ( TX ) 18 . University of Notre Dame ( IN ) 18 . Vanderbilt University ( TN ) 20 . Emory University ( GA ) 20 . University of California – Berkeley * 22 . Carnegie Mellon University ( PA ) 23 . Georgetown University ( DC ) 23 . University of Virginia * 25 . Univ . of California – Los Angeles * 25 . University of Michigan – Ann Arbor * 27 . Tufts University ( MA ) 27 . U . of North Carolina – Chapel Hill * 27 . Wake Forest University ( NC ) 30 . Univ . of Southern California 31 . College of William and Mary ( VA ) * 32 . Lehigh University ( PA ) 32 . Univ . of California – San Diego * 34 . Brandeis University ( MA ) 34 . University of Rochester ( NY ) 34 . Univ . of Wisconsin – Madison * 37 . Case Western Reserve Univ . ( OH ) 37 . Georgia Institute of Technology * 37 . New York University 40 . Boston College 40 . University of California – Irvine * 42 . U . of Illinois – Urbana - Champaign * 43 . Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst . ( NY ) 43 . Tulane University ( LA ) 45 . Univ . of California – Santa Barbara * 45 . University of Washington * 45 . Yeshiva University ( NY ) 48 . Pennsylvania State U . – University Park * 48 . University of California – Davis * 50 . Syracuse University ( NY ) 50 . University of Florida * 52 . University of Texas – Austin * 53 . George Washington University ( DC ) 53 . Worcester Polytechnic Inst . ( MA ) 55 . Pepperdine University ( CA ) 55 . Univ . of Maryland – College Park * 55 . University of Miami ( FL ) 58 . University of Georgia * 58 . University of Pittsburgh * 60 . Boston University 60 . Ohio State University – Columbus * 60 . Purdue Univ . – West Lafayette ( IN ) * 60 . Rutgers – New Brunswick ( NJ ) * 60 . Texas A & M Univ . – College Station * 60 . University of Iowa * 66 . Miami University – Oxford ( OH ) * 66 . University of Delaware * 68 . Fordham University ( NY ) 68 . Univ . of California – Santa Cruz * 68 . University of Connecticut * 71 . Brigham Young Univ . – Provo ( UT ) 71 . Southern Methodist University ( TX ) 71 . Stevens Institute of Technology ( NJ ) 74 . Indiana University – Bloomington * 74 . Michigan State University * 74 . SUNY – Binghamton * 74 . Univ . of Minnesota – Twin Cities * 78 . Baylor University ( TX ) 78 . Clemson University ( SC ) * 78 . North Carolina State U . – Raleigh * 78 . St . Louis University 78 . University of Colorado – Boulder * 78 . Virginia Tech * 84 . Clark University ( MA ) 85 . American University ( DC ) 85 . Auburn University ( AL ) * 85 . Iowa State University * 85 . Marquette University ( WI ) 85 . Univ . of California – Riverside * 85 . University of Denver 85 . Univ . of Missouri – Columbia * 85 . University of Tennessee * 93 . Howard University ( DC ) 93 . SUNY College Environmental Science and Forestry * 93 . University of Tulsa ( OK ) 93 . University of Vermont * 97 . Illinois Institute of Technology 97 . SUNY – Stony Brook * 97 . Texas Christian University 97 . University of Arizona * 97 . University of Kansas * 97 . Univ . of Nebraska – Lincoln * 97 . University of New Hampshire * 104 . University of Alabama * 104 . University of Dayton ( OH ) 104 . Univ . of Massachusetts – Amherst * 104 . University of San Diego 104 . University of the Pacific ( CA ) 109 . Drexel University ( PA ) 109 . Florida State University * 109 . Ohio University * 109 . University of Missouri – Rolla * 109 . University of Oklahoma * 109 . Univ . of South Carolina – Columbia * 115 . Loyola University Chicago 115 . Northeastern University ( MA ) 115 . University at Buffalo – SUNY * 115 . University of Oregon * 115 . University of San Francisco 120 . Catholic University of America ( DC ) 120 . Colorado State University * 120 . University of Kentucky * 120 . University of Utah * 120 . Washington State University