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Average scores, percentile ranges, and score distributions for the top 100 US universities.

Top 100 US universities per the QS World University Rankings · SAT scores from each school's official Common Data Set (federal IPEDS data where unpublished) · acceptance rates from College Scorecard / IPEDS · updated August 2026

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#	College	Location	Median SAT	Middle 50%	Acceptance rate
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Cambridge, MA	1560	1520–1580	4.5%
2	Harvard University	Cambridge, MA	1550	1510–1580	3.6%
3	University of Pennsylvania	Philadelphia, PA	1550	1510–1570	5.4%
4	Johns Hopkins University	Baltimore, MD	1550	1530–1565	6.4%
5	Stanford University	Stanford, CA	1540	1510–1570	3.6%
6	University of Chicago	Chicago, IL	1540	1510–1560	4.5%
7	Cornell University	Ithaca, NY	1540	1510–1560	8.8%
8	Columbia University	New York, NY	1540	1510–1560	4.0%
9	Northwestern University	Evanston, IL	1540	1510–1560	7.7%
10	Carnegie Mellon University	Pittsburgh, PA	1540	1500–1560	12%
11	Duke University	Durham, NC	1540	1500–1570	5.7%
12	Rice University	Houston, TX	1540	1510–1560	8.0%
13	Washington University in St. Louis	St. Louis, MO	1540	1500–1570	12%
14	Yale University	New Haven, CT	1530	1470–1560	3.9%
15	Princeton University	Princeton, NJ	1530	1490–1560	4.6%
16	Vanderbilt University	Nashville, TN	1530	1510–1560	5.9%
17	New York University	New York, NY	1520	1480–1550	9.2%
18	Brown University	Providence, RI	1520	1470–1550	5.4%
19	Dartmouth College	Hanover, NH	1520	1440–1550	5.4%
20	Emory University	Atlanta, GA	1510	1480–1540	11%
21	University of Notre Dame	Notre Dame, IN	1510	1470–1540	11%
22	Tufts University	Medford, MA	1510	1480–1540	11%
23	University of Southern California	Los Angeles, CA	1500	1450–1550	9.8%
24	Boston College	Chestnut Hill, MA	1500	1460–1520	16%
25	Case Western Reserve University	Cleveland, OH	1490	1440–1530	37%
26	Northeastern University	Boston, MA	1490	1450–1520	5.2%
27	Georgetown University	Washington, DC	1480	1405–1530	13%
28	University of Michigan	Ann Arbor, MI	1470	1370–1530	16%
29	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Champaign, IL	1470	1390–1520	42%
30	Boston University	Boston, MA	1470	1430–1510	11%
31	UNC Chapel Hill	Chapel Hill, NC	1470	1400–1530	15%
32	University of Maryland	College Park, MD	1470	1410–1520	45%
33	University of Virginia	Charlottesville, VA	1470	1410–1520	17%
34	Georgia Institute of Technology	Atlanta, GA	1460	1370–1530	14%
35	Tulane University	New Orleans, LA	1460	1430–1500	14%
36	Brandeis University	Waltham, MA	1460	1415–1510	41%
37	Wake Forest University	Winston-Salem, NC	1460	1420–1500	22%
38	University of Rochester	Rochester, NY	1450	1400–1510	40%
39	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Troy, NY	1450	1380–1500	63%
40	Yeshiva University	New York, NY	1440	1340–1510	56%
41	Lehigh University	Bethlehem, PA	1430	1380–1480	26%
42	Stevens Institute of Technology	Hoboken, NJ	1420	1370–1470	48%
43	UMass Amherst	Amherst, MA	1410	1330–1480	60%
44	Rutgers University–New Brunswick	New Brunswick, NJ	1410	1310–1500	58%
45	Stony Brook University	Stony Brook, NY	1410	1340–1480	49%
46	University of Wisconsin–Madison	Madison, WI	1400	1370–1490	45%
47	University of Florida	Gainesville, FL	1400	1330–1470	24%
48	University of Miami	Coral Gables, FL	1400	1340–1450	19%
49	Colorado School of Mines	Golden, CO	1400	1320–1480	61%
50	University of Texas at Austin	Austin, TX	1390	1250–1510	27%
51	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	Minneapolis, MN	1390	1310–1460	80%
52	NC State University	Raleigh, NC	1390	1310–1440	42%
53	George Washington University	Washington, DC	1390	1310–1450	47%
54	American University	Washington, DC	1380	1320–1440	62%
55	Purdue University	West Lafayette, IN	1360	1220–1470	50%
56	Ohio State University	Columbus, OH	1360	1280–1430	61%
57	University of Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh, PA	1360	1280–1460	58%
58	Virginia Tech	Blacksburg, VA	1360	1280–1450	55%
59	Syracuse University	Syracuse, NY	1360	1270–1440	46%
60	Florida State University	Tallahassee, FL	1345	1290–1400	24%
61	Penn State	University Park, PA	1340	1280–1410	61%
62	University of Connecticut	Storrs, CT	1340	1220–1420	52%
63	Drexel University	Philadelphia, PA	1340	1250–1430	79%
64	New Jersey Institute of Technology	Newark, NJ	1335	—	65%
65	University of Tennessee, Knoxville	Knoxville, TN	1330	1280–1380	42%
66	University of Maryland-Baltimore County	Baltimore, MD	1320	1240–1420	72%
67	University of Colorado Boulder	Boulder, CO	1300	1180–1390	78%
68	University of Georgia	Athens, GA	1300	1220–1400	38%
69	University of Delaware	Newark, DE	1300	1220–1370	71%
70	Illinois Institute of Technology	Chicago, IL	1300	1190–1400	55%
71	Missouri University of Science and Technology	Rolla, MO	1300	1220–1380	73%
72	Indiana University Bloomington	Bloomington, IN	1290	1180–1390	78%
73	University at Buffalo (SUNY)	Buffalo, NY	1290	1210–1380	74%
74	University of Texas at Dallas	Richardson, TX	1290	1170–1390	65%
75	Texas A&M University	College Station, TX	1280	1160–1390	57%
76	Oregon State University	Corvallis, OR	1280	1160–1390	77%
77	University of South Carolina	Columbia, SC	1270	1190–1350	60%
78	CUNY City College	New York, NY	1260	1070–1430	60%
79	University of Central Florida	Orlando, FL	1260	1210–1340	40%
80	University of Cincinnati	Cincinnati, OH	1260	1160–1350	85%
81	Iowa State University	Ames, IA	1250	1130–1350	89%
82	University of South Florida	Tampa, FL	1250	1160–1340	43%
83	University of Arizona	Tucson, AZ	1240	1130–1340	86%
84	University of Illinois Chicago	Chicago, IL	1240	1130–1350	77%
85	University of Houston	Houston, TX	1240	1170–1330	74%
86	University of Oklahoma	Norman, OK	1232	1160–1310	77%
87	University of Iowa	Iowa City, IA	1230	1130–1320	84%
88	University of Utah	Salt Lake City, UT	1230	1120–1320	86%
89	University of Missouri	Columbia, MO	1230	1150–1330	78%
90	Michigan State University	East Lansing, MI	1210	1100–1310	85%
91	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	Lincoln, NE	1200	1100–1310	87%
92	University of Oregon	Eugene, OR	1200	1050–1320	88%
93	Texas Tech University	Lubbock, TX	1180	1110–1260	73%
94	University of Kansas	Lawrence, KS	1170	1080–1280	93%
95	University of Kentucky	Lexington, KY	1170	1070–1270	93%
96	University of Hawaii at Manoa	Honolulu, HI	1160	1081–1293	87%
97	Florida International University	Miami, FL	1160	1070–1250	55%
98	Wayne State University	Detroit, MI	1160	1060–1260	81%
99	Georgia State University	Atlanta, GA	1140	1030–1240	55%
100	University of New Mexico	Albuquerque, NM	1020	900–1160	95%

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