List of “Elite” 34 Schools in Alphabetical Order.
| Amherst College | Bowdoin College | Brown University | 
| California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | Carleton College | Carnegie Mellon University | 
| Columbia University | Cornell University | Dartmouth College | 
| Duke University | Georgetown University | Harvard University | 
| Harvey Mudd College | Haverford College | Johns Hopkins University | 
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | New York University | Northwestern University | 
| Pomona College | Princeton University | Rice University | 
| Stanford University | Swarthmore College | Tufts University | 
| University of California-Berkeley (CAL) | University of Chicago | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 
| University of Notre Dame | University of Pennsylvania | University of Virginia (UVA) | 
| Vanderbilt University | Washington University in St. Louis | Williams College | 
| Yale University | 
1. Princeton University 2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 4. Stanford University 3. California Institute of Technology 4. Stanford University 5. Yale University 6. Harvard University 7. University of Chicago 8. Swarthmore College 9. Johns Hopkins University 10. Williams College 11. Duke University 12. Rice University 13. Brown University 14. Washington University in St. Louis 15. University of Pennsylvania 16. Pomona College 17. Dartmouth College 18. Wellesley College 19. Vanderbilt University 20. Harvey Mudd College 21. Northwestern University 22. Columbia University 23. Amherst College 24. University of Notre Dame 25. Carnegie Mellon University 26. University of Virginia 27. Cornell University 28. University of California-Berkeley 29. Vassar College 30. Bowdoin College 31. University of California-Los Angeles 32. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 33. Haverford College 34. Washington and Lee University 35. University of Florida
Links:
The most successful and influential Americans come from a surprisingly narrow range of 'elite' educational backgrounds | Nature 2024