The University of Pennsylvania tops College Factual's list for top 10 "Best Colleges Nationwide" for 2015.
UPenn is one of six Ivies to make the list, as Cornell University and Columbia University find themselves outside the top 10. Of the four non-Ivies, only one school with an acceptance rate greater than 11 percent made the list.
"These rankings are based on a pure and distinct focus on data," Bill Phelan, co-founder and CEO of College Factual, told USA Today. "We don't count previous reputations... providing a more unbiased view."
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1. University of Pennsylvania
Location: Philadelphia, Penn.
School type: private research, Ivy League
Acceptance rate: 10 percent
Full time teachers: 96 percent
2. Yale University
Location: New Haven, Conn.
School type: private research, Ivy League
Acceptance rate: 6.3 percent
Full time teachers: 71 percent
3. Duke University
Location: Durham, N.C.
School type: private research
Acceptance rate: 10.8 percent
Full time teachers: 94 percent
4. Harvard University
Location: Cambridge, Mass.
School type: private research, Ivy League
Acceptance rate: 5.9 percent
Full time teachers: 83 percent
5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Cambridge, Mass.
School type: private research
Acceptance rate: 7.7 percent
Full time teachers: 82 percent
6. Brown University
Location: Providence, R.I.
School type: private research, Ivy League
Acceptance rate: 8.6 percent
Full time teachers: 87 percent
7. Stanford University
Location: Stanford, Calif.
School type: private research
Acceptance rate: 5.1 percent
Full time teachers: 90 percent
8. Princeton University
Location: Princeton, N.J.
School type: private research, Ivy League
Acceptance rate: 7.4 percent
Full time teachers: 83 percent
9. Dartmouth College
Location: Hanover, N.H.
School type: private research, Ivy League
Acceptance rate: 11.5 percent
Full time teachers: 81 percent
10. University of Notre Dame
Location: Notre Dame, Ind.
School type: Private research
Acceptance rate: 21 percent
Full time teachers: 89 percent
