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Comparing NC State to Research Peer Institutions

2005 Freshman Merit Scholars

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.

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