Top 50 Stressful Universities in the U.S.

Top 50 Stressful Universities in the U.S.

Sure, college can be stressful. Just ask any college or university students – the night before a big exam. 

Too much caffeine ... too little sleep. 
Too many books ... too many overtired brain cells. 
What's a collegian to do?

The Daily Beast examined the top 50 American universities, based on rankings from U.S. News & World Report, and evaluated these schools for stressfulness. 

They used these issues to create a list of the most stressful colleges and universities in the United States:

• Tuition cost
• Room and board expenses
• Academics
• Acceptance rates
• Graduate engineering program standards
• Crime on campus

Here’s the list of the most stressful universities in the U.S., as rated by The Daily Beast.

1) Stanford University

2) Columbia University

3) Massachusetts Institute of Technology

4) University of Pennsylvania

5) Harvard University

6) Princeton University

7) Vanderbilt University

8) Carnegie Mellon University

9) California Institute of Technology

10) Northwestern University

11) University of Chicago

12) Yale University

13) Washington University in St. Louis

14) Dartmouth University

15) Johns Hopkins University

16) Duke University

17) Cornell University

18) University of Southern California

19) Georgetown University

20) Brown University

21) Tufts University

22) Rice University

23) University of California, Berkeley

24) New York University

25) Boston College

26) Emory University

27) Notre Dame University

28) Wake Forest University

29) University of Rochester

30) University of California, Los Angeles

31) Brandeis University

32) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

33) Lehigh University

34) Tulane University

35) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

36) University of Virginia

37) University of California, San Diego

38) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

39) Case Western Reserve University

40) Georgia Institute of Technology

41) University of California, Santa Barbara

42) University of California, Davis

43) University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

44) College of William and Mary

45) University of Wisconsin, Madison

46) Pennsylvania State University

47) University of Texas at Austin

48) University of Washington

49) University of California, Irvine

50) University of Florida

Do you agree or disagree with these rankings? Where does your own alma mater rate – for stressfulness?