| Rank |
School name |
| #1 |
University of California—Berkeley (Goldman) |
| |
Berkeley, CA |
| #2 |
Harvard University (Kennedy) |
| |
Cambridge, MA |
| #3 |
University of Michigan—Ann Arbor (Ford) |
| |
Ann Arbor, MI |
| #4 |
Duke University (Sanford) |
| |
Durham, NC |
| #5 |
University of Chicago (Harris) |
| |
Chicago, IL |
| #6 |
Syracuse University (Maxwell) |
| |
Syracuse, NY |
| #7 |
Indiana University—Bloomington |
| |
Bloomington, IN |
| #8 |
Carnegie Mellon University (Heinz) |
| |
Pittsburgh, PA |
| #9 |
Princeton University (Wilson) |
| |
Princeton, NJ |
| #10 |
University of Wisconsin—Madison (La Follette) |
| |
Madison, WI |
| #11 |
University of Southern California (Price) |
| |
Los Angeles, CA |
| #12Tie |
University of Texas—Austin (LBJ) |
| |
Austin, TX |
| #12Tie |
University of Washington (Evans) |
| |
Seattle, WA |
| #14 |
George Washington University (Trachtenberg) |
| |
Washington, DC |
| #15 |
Georgetown University (McCourt) |
| |
Washington, DC |
| #16 |
Ohio State University (Glenn) |
| |
Columbus, OH |
| #17 |
University of Minnesota—Twin Cities (Humphrey) |
| |
Minneapolis, MN |
| #18 |
University of Georgia |
| |
Athens, GA |
| #19Tie |
New York University (Wagner) |
| |
New York, NY |
| #19Tie |
University of California—Los Angeles (Luskin) |
| |
Los Angeles, CA |
| #21 |
Florida State University (Askew) |
| |
Tallahassee, FL |
| #22Tie |
Arizona State University |
| |
Phoenix, AZ |
| #22Tie |
Georgia Institute of Technology |
| |
Atlanta, GA |
| #22Tie |
Georgia State University (Young) |
| |
Atlanta, GA |
| #22Tie |
Texas A&M University—College Station (Bush) |
| |
College Station, TX |
| #26Tie |
American University |
| |
Washington, DC |
| #26Tie |
University of Maryland—College Park |
| |
College Park, MD |
| #28Tie |
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey—Newark |
| |
Newark, NJ |
| #28Tie |
University of Kentucky (Martin) |
| |
Lexington, KY |
| #30Tie |
Columbia University (SIPA) |
| |
New York, NY |
| #30Tie |
Johns Hopkins University |
| |
Washington, DC |
| #30Tie |
University at Albany—SUNY (Rockefeller) |
| |
Albany, NY |
| #33Tie |
George Mason University |
| |
Arlington, VA |
| #33Tie |
Stanford University |
| |
Stanford, CA |
| #33Tie |
University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill |
| |
Chapel Hill, NC |