Cambridge, Massachusetts
MIT and Caltech represent the top technical schools in the nation. With over 4,000 undergrads, MIT is four times larger. It's tops in electrical engineering and computer science, but excels in other areas of science. Noam Chomsky put linguistics on the map here. The innovative Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program provides students with close faculty research projects. Admissions is steep with only a 16% acceptance rate. Bright scientifically minded girls have a 29% admit rate.
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