The states with the most 5-star colleges are California (7), Massachusetts (5), Illinois (3) and New York (3).

College	Acceptance rate	Est. full price 2023-24	Est. rice with avg. grant	Graduation Rate
Amherst College (Mass.)	9%	$83,900	$20,200	95%
Berea College (Ky.)	33%	$57,000	$3,600	70%
Brown University (R.I.)	6%	$86,500	$26,800	95%
California Institute of Technology	4%	$83,800	$32,300	94%
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo	33%	$31,100	$22,200	83%
Columbia University (N.Y.)	4%	$86,500	$13,300	93%
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (N.Y.)	15%	$72,000	$22,300	91%
Cornell University (N.Y.)	9%	$84,100	$26,000	95%
Dartmouth University (N.H.)	6%	$85,400	$25,800	94%
Duke University (N.C.)	6%	$83,700	$29,300	94%
Georgetown University (D.C.)	12%	$85,400	$24,700	95%
Georgia Institute of Technology	16%	$31,200	$18,600	89%
Harvard University (Mass.)	4%	$81,800	$14,900	97%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	4%	$80,700	$33,200	95%
Massachusetts Maritime Academy	90%	$31,300	$20,800	79%
Northwestern University (Ill.)	7%	$87,900	$32,200	94%
Princeton University (N.J.)	4%	$82,300	$22,400	98%
Rice University (Texas)	9%	$75,200	$19,900	92%
Stanford University (Calif.)	4%	$82,700	$15,400	$15,400
University of California, Berkeley	14%	$43,500	$18,900	93%
University of California, Irvine	29%	$38,000	$12,500	86%
University of California, Los Angeles	11%	$38,000	$14,400	92%
University of California, San Diego	34%	$37,900	$16,800	88%
The University of Chicago (Ill.)	6%	$88,200	$36,200	95%
University of Florida	30%	$22,500	$10,500	87%
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	60%	$33,200	$15,300	86%
University of Michigan	20%	$33,800	$20,600	93%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	20%	$26,000	$12,300	90%
The University of Notre Dame (Ind.)	15%	$82,100	$32,700	96%
University of Pennsylvania	6%	$87,300	$15,600	96%
University of Virginia	21%	$38,100	$21,900	94%
University of Wisconsin-Madison	60%	$28,700	$14,500	87%
Williams College (Mass.)	9%	$81,800	$15,500	95%
Yale University (Conn.)	5%	$86,100	$22,100	97%

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