17. The University of Maryland at College Park
Location: College Park, MD
Class of 2016 Applied: 33
Class of 2016 Accepted: 16
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Maryland’s flagship school was ranked #60 among national universities by U.S. News & World Report. It is the only public research university inside the Capital Beltway, and its living-learning programs include ones devoted to entrepreneurship and cybersecurity, the first of their kind in the nation. Students can work at agencies such as NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
