ns ate tud s en Me ts e n d ia te r n ing ear co l n i n g P r e l e g e s 10 ye af t d ic ar s e r te af t en d m te r e er i n g d ia n c e o ll a r N e g ni be et pr e ng l ow i ce s1 0y $7 of a ea 5, 0 t t rs 0 0 end i nc an % o c r e me f o 5 y ep ea ay r fa r s ing mi af t $ li e er 1 in s lea lo v i n an g c pr i o ll n c i eg pa e l du Pe ll of Fir st- ge er mb 1 CUNY Baruch College (NY)* 8% 475 49% 57188 61422 4128 71 2 University of California-Davis (CA)* -6% 1523 38% 58469 56945 11361 83 3 Stanford University (CA) -4% 250 25% 91782 74710 2800 90 4 University of California-Los Angeles (CA)* -5% 1584 35% 61385 62510 9389 81 5 Washington and Lee University (VA) -1% 57 N/A 76011 58014 3841 92 6 University of Florida (FL)* -6% 1652 30% 54609 53973 7461 72 7 College of the Holy Cross (MA) 2% 129 16% 68358 56087 13546 94 8 Harvard University (MA) -2% 302 22% 94579 72994 4137 69 9 University of California-San Diego (CA)* -3% 1443 37% 60673 66496 10226 85 10 Georgetown University (DC) -1% 222 14% 90491 66807 10560 89 11 Brigham Young University (UT) -1% 963 11% 59636 45165 10737 85 12 Texas A&M University-College Station (TX)* -11% 1342 30% 57067 54268 11579 85 13 University of CA-Santa Barbara (CA)* -4% 1229 40% 54415 57481 11287 76 14 Yale University (CT) 0% 162 22% 80238 69564 6576 89 15 MA Institute of Technology (MA) -8% 170 23% 98799 84659 7347 93 16 Vassar College (NY) 2% 154 15% 52972 54415 9596 93 88 17 CA Poly. St. U.-San Luis Obispo (CA)* -9% 478 24% 65631 60074 13495 18 Barnard College (NY) 1% 116 17% 58527 55469 9618 94 19 University of Pennsylvania (PA) -4% 346 18% 84452 71857 9110 90 20 Duke University (NC) 2% 227 12% 82140 73774 5211 92 21 University of IL-Urbana-Champaign (IL)* -6% 1195 23% 60223 59133 11446 82 22 Princeton University (NJ) -3% 143 25% 77915 71843 3857 87 23 Rutgers University-New Brunswick (NJ)* -5% 1345 32% 57330 60425 14515 74 24 University of California-Berkeley (CA)* -3% 965 33% 64010 68627 9804 79 25 0% 82 17% 63200 56928 11136 90 26 University of Richmond (VA) 3% 104 17% 63442 57666 11669 79 27 -3% 124 17% 83494 66691 22411 95 Colgate University (NY) Bentley University (MA) 28 Wesleyan University (CT) -2% 132 19% 52553 55435 9388 92 29 Trinity College (CT) 10% 64 15% 61534 55651 11813 85 30 Purdue University-Main (IN)* -9% 929 20% 55825 55200 7182 83 31 Williams College (MA) -4% 99 18% 57723 57744 6255 89 32 University of Texas-Austin (TX)* -11% 1463 26% 56698 61449 13315 82 33 Columbia Univ. in the City of NY (NY) -3% 97 23% 80809 71615 7317 81 34 Stony Brook University (NY)* 2% 685 34% 57440 64054 10732 77 35 Amherst College (MA) -4% 63 19% 61817 57085 7485 87 36 Claremont McKenna College (CA) 5% 38 N/A 71026 62471 12737 N/A 37 Florida State University (FL)* -6% 1293 27% 46112 50713 12570 71 -3% 67 15% 61546 57558 8896 90 38 Bowdoin College (ME) 39 Bates College (ME) 4% 66 13% 56469 55976 9262 95 40 Union College (NY) -1% 79 12% 66026 58349 14225 89 41 Lafayette College (PA) -3% 59 13% 70126 59579 14140 91 42 Hamilton College (NY) -1% 66 14% 58636 55587 9637 94 62 43 42 Nu Pe ll /no n- Pe ll gr a *Public institution °For-profit institution gr a dr ate ga p BEST AFFORDABLE ELITE COLLEGES -30% 15 45% 39577 25352 10784 44 Dartmouth College (NH) -2% 136 15% 73055 68581 8747 91 45 -7% 832 17% 61590 64262 6153 80 Brescia University (KY) University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (MI)* 46 Gustavus Adolphus College (MN) -0% 116 15% 51314 50291 14899 88 47 -5% 683 19% 54357 58319 7286 85 University of NC-Chapel Hill (NC)* 48 Milwaukee School of Engineering (WI) -12% 69 25% 69914 57800 16652 84 49 Fairfield University (CT) -2% 142 17% 71720 56358 27566 88 50 Boston College (MA) -2% 297 13% 70982 66380 12267 93 September/October 2019 A NOTE ON METHODOLOGY: AFFORDABLE ELITES ur "affordable elite" ranking consists of the 208 four-year universities included in our main rankings (see page 105 for general inclusion criteria) that were in the highest selectivity categories in Barron's Profiles of American Colleges. This includes the very competitive+, highly competitive, highly competitive+, and most competitive categories. We used the following six measures of social mobility to create the ranking: Pell versus non-Pell graduation rate gap; number of Pell recipients earning bachelor's degrees; percent of first-generation college students; gap between actual earnings ten years after college entry and predicted earnings based on student characteristics, mix of majors, and local living costs; net price of attendance for families with incomes below $75,000; and percentage of students repaying at least $1 in federal student loans five years after leaving college. Each of the measures was given equal weight in the ranking, and we standardized the measures in the same way as the main rankings to reduce the influence of outliers. We show the top fifty colleges here, and the rest are available online. -Eds. O