Top Colleges in Graduate and Professional Education

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Brandeis University (Waltham, MA)
Brown University (Providence, RI)

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California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA)
Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)
Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, OH)
Columbia University (New York, NY)

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Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
Duke University (Durham, NC)

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Emory University (Atlanta, GA)
Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
Indiana University Bloomington (Bloomington, IN)
Iowa State University (Ames, IA)
Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
McGill University (Montreal, CAN)
Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI)

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New York University (New York, NY)

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Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)
Pennsylvania State University—University Park (University Park, PA)
Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)

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Purdue University—West Lafayette (West Lafayette, IN)
Rice University (Houston, TX)
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey—New Brunswick (New Brunswick, NJ)

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Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
Stony Brook University (Stony Brook, NY)
Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY)
Texas A&M University—College Station (College Station, TX)
The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)

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The University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ)
The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX)
Tulane University (New Orleans, LA)
University at Buffalo (Buffalo, NY)
University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
University of California, Davis (Davis, CA)
University of California, Irvine (Irvine, CA)
University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)
University of California, San Diego (La Jolla, CA)
University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA)
University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)

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University of Colorado Boulder (Boulder, CO)

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University of Florida (Gainesville, FL)
University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (Champaign, IL)
University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA)
University of Kansas (Lawrence, KS)
University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, MD)
University of Michigan—Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor, MI)

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University of Minnesota Twin Cities (Minneapolis, MN)
University of Missouri—Columbia (Columbia, MO)
University of Nebraska—Lincoln (Lincoln, NE)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC)
University of Oregon (Eugene, OR)
University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA)

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University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)
University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)
University of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario, CAN)
University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA)
University of Washington, Seattle (Seattle, WA)
University of Wisconsin—Madison (Madison, WI)
Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN)
Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, MO)
Yale University (New Haven, CT)

Source: The American Association of Colleges and Universities

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