The 50 Most Stressful Colleges

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1. Stanford University (Stanford, CA)

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2. Columbia University (New York, NY)

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3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
4. University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
5. Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
6. Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)

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7. Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN)

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8. Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)
9. California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA)
10. Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)

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11. University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)

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12. Yale University (New Haven, CT)
13. Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, MO)
14. Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)
15. Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)

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16. Duke University (Durham, NC)

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17. Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
18. University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)
19. Georgetown University (Washington, DC)
20. Brown University (Providence, RI)

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21. Tufts University (Medford, MA)
22. Rice University (Houston, TX)
23. University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
24. New York University (New York, NY)

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25. Boston College (Chestnut Hill, MA)
26. Emory University (Atlanta, GA)
27. University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN)
28. Wake Forest University (Winston Salem, NC)
29. University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)
30. University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)
31. Brandeis University (Waltham, MA)
32. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY)
33. Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA)
34. Tulane University (New Orleans, LA)
35. University of Michigan—Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor, MI)

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36. University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA)
37. University of California, San Diego (La Jolla, CA)
38. University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (Champaign, IL)
39. Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, OH)

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40. Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA)
41. University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA)
42. University of California, Davis (Davis, CA)
43. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC)
44. William & Mary (Williamsburg, VA)
45. University of Wisconsin—Madison (Madison, WI)
46. Pennsylvania State University—University Park (University Park, PA)
47. The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX)
48. University of Washington, Seattle (Seattle, WA)
49. University of California, Irvine (Irvine, CA)
50. University of Florida (Gainesville, FL)

Source: "The 50 Most Stressful Colleges," The Daily Beast, 2017

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