The following lists universities that enrolled more than 100 National Merit Scholars for 2019 entering class according to the 2018-19 Annual Report of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.[28][29]
Rank | University | Total scholars (including college-sponsored) | College-sponsored scholars only |
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1 | University of Florida | 270 | 231 |
2 | University of Southern California | 265 | 206 |
3 | University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa) | 258 | 210 |
4 | Northwestern University | 244 | 188 |
5 | University of Chicago | 233 | 174 |
6 | Vanderbilt University | 222 | 168 |
7 | Harvard University | 207 | 0 |
8 | University of Texas at Dallas | 200 | 173 |
9 | Texas A&M University, College Station | 188 | 144 |
10 | Northeastern University | 155 | 133 |
11 | Yale University | 140 | 0 |
12 | Arizona State University | 136 | 113 |
13 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 136 | 0 |
14 | University of California, Berkeley | 132 | 0 |
15 | University of Pennsylvania | 126 | 0 |
16 | Stanford University | 124 | 0 |
17 | Duke University | 119 | 0 |
18 | Purdue University (West Lafayette) | 116 | 101 |
19 | Princeton University | 114 | 0 |
20 | University of Minnesota, Twin Cities | 107 | 95 |