| Institution |
2005 Merit
Scholars |
| Harvard
Univ |
357 |
| Yale
Univ |
289 |
| Univ
of Texas - Austin |
264 |
| Univ
of Florida |
252 |
| Stanford
Univ |
245 |
| Princeton
Univ |
220 |
| Washington
Univ in St. Louis |
199 |
| Univ
of Chicago |
196 |
| Univ
of Southern California |
196 |
| Vanderbilt
Univ |
183 |
| Northwestern
Univ |
178 |
| Rice
Univ |
172 |
| Massachusetts
Institute of Technology |
158 |
| Univ
of North Carolina - Chapel Hill |
149 |
| Duke
Univ |
142 |
| Texas
A&M Univ |
137 |
| Univ
of Pennsylvania |
133 |
| New York
Univ |
124 |
| Univ
of California - Los Angeles |
114 |
| Georgia
Institute of Technology |
106 |
| Univ
of Arizona |
106 |
| Ohio State
Univ - Columbus |
99 |
| Columbia
Univ |
96 |
| Purdue
Univ - West Lafayette |
89 |
| Brown
Univ |
76 |
| Univ
of Michigan - Ann Arbor |
75 |
| Univ
of Kansas - Lawrence |
71 |
| Case
Western Reserve Univ |
66 |
| Emory
Univ |
64 |
| Univ
of Minnesota - Twin Cities |
61 |
| Univ
of Nebraska - Lincoln |
60 |
| Univ
of Georgia |
59 |
| Iowa State
Univ |
57 |
| Michigan
State Univ |
53 |
| Univ
of California - Berkeley |
53 |
| Tulane
Univ |
52 |
| Johns
Hopkins Univ |
51 |
| Univ
of Maryland - College Park |
47 |
| California
Institute of Technology |
45 |
| Cornell
Univ |
45 |
| Univ
of Virginia |
41 |
| North
Carolina State Univ |
39 |
| Univ
of California - San Diego |
39 |
| Univ
of Washington - Seattle |
38 |
| Univ
of Rochester |
32 |
| Univ
of Wisconsin - Madison |
31 |
| Univ
of Iowa |
30 |
| Univ
of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign |
26 |
| Carnegie
Mellon Univ |
24 |
| Pennsylvania
State Univ - Univ Park |
24 |
| Univ
of Missouri - Columbia |
21 |
| Univ
of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh |
21 |
| Indiana
Univ - Bloomington |
20 |
| Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State Univ |
20 |
| Univ
of California - Irvine |
19 |
| Brandeis
Univ |
18 |
| Rutgers
the State Univ of NJ - New Brunswick |
18 |
| Univ
of California - Davis |
14 |
| Univ
of Oregon |
11 |
| Stony
Brook Univ |
9 |
| Univ
of California - Santa Barbara |
6 |
| Univ
of Colorado - Boulder |
5 |
| Syracuse
Univ |
1 |
| State
Univ. of New York - College at Buffalo |
0 |
Note: This table shows the total
number of Merit Scholarship winners. The rankings were determined
by The Chronicle from an alphabetical listing appearing in the
2004-5 annual report of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.