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The Top Colleges and Universities for Challenging Coursework

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Baylor University (Waco, TX)
Boston University (Boston, MA)

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Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)
Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
Purdue University—West Lafayette (West Lafayette, IN)
University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN)
University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA)
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Worcester, MA)

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Northeast

CUNY—Hunter College (New York, NY)
Colgate University (Hamilton, NY)
Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)
Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA)
Fordham University (Bronx, NY)

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Grove City College (Grove City, PA)
Husson University (Bangor, ME)
Kingsborough Community College (Brooklyn, NY)
Loyola University Maryland (Baltimore, MD)

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Messiah University (Mechanicsburg, PA)

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New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, NJ)
Northeastern University (Boston, MA)
Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)

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Raritan Valley Community College (Branchburg, NJ)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY)
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey—Camden (Camden, NJ)

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University of Connecticut (Storrs, CT)

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University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA)

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Ursinus College (Collegeville, PA)
Ursinus College (Collegeville, PA)
Vet Tech Institute (Pittsburgh, PA)
Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT)

Southeast

Clemson University (Clemson, SC)
College of Charleston (Charleston, SC)
Duke University (Durham, NC)

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ERAU—Daytona Beach (Daytona Beach, FL)

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Savannah College of Art and Design (Savannah, GA)
South College (Knoxville, TN)
Union University (Jackson, TN)

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Washington and Lee University (Lexington, VA)

Midwest

College of the Ozarks (Point Lookout, MO)
Concordia University, Nebraska (Seward, NE)
Hutchinson Community College (Hutchinson, KS)
Lawrence University (Appleton, WI)
The University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)

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The University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK)

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University of Michigan—Flint (Flint, MI)

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University of Minnesota Twin Cities (Minneapolis, MN)

West

Brigham Young University—Provo (Provo, UT)
Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
Brigham Young University—Idaho (Rexburg, ID)
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (San Luis Obispo, CA)
California State University, Long Beach (Long Beach, CA)
Colorado Christian University (Lakewood, CO)

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Texas A&M University—College Station (College Station, TX)
The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX)
University of California, Davis (Davis, CA)
University of Colorado Boulder (Boulder, CO)

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University of Oregon (Eugene, OR)
Walla Walla University (College Place, WA)
University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)
University of Texas at Dallas (Richardson, TX)

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University of Washington, Seattle (Seattle, WA)

International

University of Waterloo (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada)
New York University Abu Dhabi (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)

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