Comparison Institutions Atlantic Coast Conference Top Cross Applicants Tuition & Fees Jesuit US News & World Report G14 Group Key Indicator Report

Boston College Villanova University 1_Columbia University Boston College 1_Princeton University Boston College Boston University Clemson University Georgetown University 2_Tufts University Canisius College 2_Harvard University Boston University Brandeis University Duke University Northeastern University 3_Brown University College of the Holy Cross 3_Columbia University Brandeis University Brown University Florida State University University of Notre Dame 4_Duke University Creighton University 4_Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. George Washington University Cornell University Georgia Institute of Technology University of Virginia 5_University of Southern Fairfield University 4_Yale University Lehigh University Duke University University of Louisville University of Pennsylvania California Fordham University 6_Stanford University New York University Emory University University of Miami Brown University 6_Boston College Georgetown University 6_University of Chicago Northeastern University Georgetown University University of North Carolina Boston University 7_University of Pennsylvania Gonzaga University 8_University of Pennsylvania Southern Methodist University Northeastern University North Carolina State University Harvard University 8_Dartmouth College John Carroll University 9_California Institute of Technology Syracuse University New York University University of Notre Dame Cornell University 9_Cornell University Le Moyne College 9_Johns Hopkins University Tufts University Northwestern University University of Pittsburgh Duke University 10_George Washington Loyola Marymount University 9_Northwestern University Tulane University Rice University Syracuse University University of Michigan University Loyola University Chicago 12_Duke University University of Miami Tufts University University of Virginia 11_Northwestern University Loyola University Maryland 13_Dartmouth College University of Notre Dame University of Notre Dame Virginia Polytechnic 12_Wellesley College Loyola University New Orleans 14_Brown University Wake Forest University Univ. of Southern California Wake Forest University 13_Boston University Marquette University 14_Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University 14_Georgetown University Regis University 16_Rice University Wake Forest University 15_Yale University Rockhurst University 16_Washington Univ. in St. Louis Washington Univ. in St. Louis 16_University of Notre Dame Saint Joseph's University 18_Cornell University 17_Villanova University Saint Louis University 19_University of Notre Dame 18College of the Holy Cross Saint Peter's University 20_Univ. of California- Los Angeles 19_Fordham University Santa Clara University 21_Emory University 20_Northeastern University Seattle University 22_Univ. of California – Berkeley 21_New York University Spring Hill College 23_Georgetown University 22_Providence College St. John’s College 24_University of Michigan – Ann 23_Vanderbilt University University of Detroit Mercy Arbor 24_Harvard University University of San Francisco 24_Univ. of Southern California 25_Emory University University of Scranton 26_Carnegie Mellon University Xavier University N > 25 due to ties

Source: www.theacc.com; Source: Office of Enrollment Source: Office of Enrollment Source: www.ajcunet.edu; Source: www.usnews.com; Source: Source: List developed by BC Senior October 2020 Management, 2019 Admitted Management based on 2021 October 2020 2021 Rankings (per September https://www.smu.edu/Provost/IR/Res Executives for KI annual report Student Questionnaire Plus (Class USNWR Rankings (per September 2020 edition), Top 25 National ources/PeerUniversities October 2020 of 2023); note, typically updated 2020 edition), presented from Universities presented from 1 to 25 (Note: Southern Methodist University on an every-other-year cycle, 1 to 25 (1=highest tuition and fees (1=best, highest rank) currently serves as the operations institutions are listed by number cost among national universities) October 2020 center for the G14 Data Exchange.) of cross- applications, greatest to October 2020 October 2020 least October 2020

Comparison institutions are based on data compiled by the use of national data sets (National Center for Education Statistics databases, data exchange groups, ad hoc data collection) and personal judgment. Variables to devise groups may include: budgets (endowment, tuition, fees, scholarships, appropriations), location, selectivity, graduation rates, retention rates, teaching loads, size (students, faculty, facilities, campus), degree levels, programs, mission (liberal arts, religious) among other areas. Derived lists typically fall into one of four categories:

❖ Predetermined – Institutions are arranged together for some purpose (e.g., athletic conference, geographic proximity, Carnegie classification) → for example, Atlantic Coast Conference list ❖ Competitor – Compete for students, faculty, or finances → for example, Top Cross Applicant list, Tuition/ Room & Board list ❖ Peer – Similar in role and scope or mission → for example, Jesuit list ❖ Aspirational – Dissimilar to the home institution, but worthy of emulation → for example, US News & World Report list

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