1. Carnegie Mellon is the only college that has the nickname Tartans.

2. Carnegie Mellon has the highest dorm capacity (3,873) of all the 6 colleges whose top major is electrical and electronics engineering.
beat Polytechnic Inst. of NYU (400), Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering (339), and Capitol College (120).

3. Carnegie Mellon has the highest out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($42,136) of the 115 colleges with a typical meal plan cost of at least $4,970.
after Carnegie Mellon ($42,136, $4,970), closest are Colgate ($41,870, $5,270), Bard College ($41,670, $5,880), and U of Richmond ($41,610, $5,540).

4. Carnegie Mellon is the only one of 207 colleges that have an entrepreneurship and small business major whose top Doctoral major is electrical and electronics engineering.
unlike U of Washington, U of Arizona, and Washington Univ in St Louis, and 203 others.

5. Carnegie Mellon has the lowest ratio of female full-time freshmen (41.7%) of all the 13 colleges that are in Pittsburgh, PA.
outdid La Roche College (43.5%), Pitt (51.2%), and The Art Inst. of Pittsburgh (51.5%), and others.

6. Carnegie Mellon has the highest Times Higher Education world ranking (21st place) of all the 72 colleges within 100 miles.
beat Pitt (59th place) and Kent State (301st place).

7. Carnegie Mellon spends the most on research per full-time student ($28,045) of all the 34 colleges that are within 50 miles.
beat Pitt ($22,900), Duquesne ($1,435), and West Liberty Univ ($123), and others.

8. Carnegie Mellon has the highest USNews MBA ranking (16th place) of all the 33 colleges whose top major is in engineering.
beat Iowa State Univ (62nd place), Worcester Polytechnic Inst. (82nd place), and Clarkson Univ (97th place).

9. Carnegie Mellon has the highest Webometrics world ranking (21st place) of all the 21 colleges within 25 miles.
beat Pitt (35th place).

10. Carnegie Mellon has the highest 75th percentile SAT math score (780) of all the 289 colleges within 200 miles.
beat Johns Hopkins (770), Georgetown (750), and Case Western Reserve Univ (750), and others.

11. Carnegie Mellon has the highest 25th percentile SAT math score (680) of the 111 colleges with at least 35.5% of grad students who are under 25 years old.
after Carnegie Mellon (680, 35.5%), closest are Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. (670, 36.4%), Georgia Tech (650, 37.4%), and Colgate (640, 47.4%).

12. Carnegie Mellon has the highest total 75th percentile SAT score (2,230) of the 34 colleges with at least 29.1% foreign students.
after Carnegie Mellon (2,230, 29.1%), closest are Illinois Inst. of Technology (2,060, 36.6%), Polytechnic Inst. of NYU (2,010, 40.6%), and Stevens Inst. of Technology (1,990, 30.3%).

13. Carnegie Mellon has the 3rd-highest ARWU world ranking (55th place) of the 163 Pennsylvania colleges.
beat out by U of Pennsylvania (14th place) and Penn State (45th place).

14. Only Carnegie Mellon has both as few undergrads (5,830) but as many foreign students (3,415).
closest are Columbia (7,950, 5,979), Illinois Inst. of Technology (2,602, 3,125), and Fort Hays State Univ (10,317, 3,765).

15. Carnegie Mellon has the 2nd-highest 25th percentile SAT writing score (630) of the 755 colleges that have a marketing major.
U of Pennsylvania is first with 680.

16. Carnegie Mellon has the 3rd-highest average full-time teaching salary ($113,492) of the 655 colleges that have a finance major.
outdone by U of Pennsylvania ($128,503) and Washington Univ in St Louis ($116,249).

17. Carnegie Mellon has the highest 75th percentile SAT writing score (730) of the 17 colleges with at least 16.6% Asians or Pacific Islanders and that have an engineering technology program.
after Carnegie Mellon (730, 16.6%), closest are U of the Pacific (630, 31.1%), U of Illinois at Chicago (620, 18.2%), and New Jersey Inst. of Technology (570, 18.2%).

18. Only Carnegie Mellon has both as few grad students (5,510) but spends as much on research ($284.3M).
closest are UCSD (5,513, $610.0M), Case Western Reserve Univ (5,610, $379.5M), and Vanderbilt (5,835, $389.9M).

19. Carnegie Mellon has the highest 25th percentile SAT reading score (620) of the 195 colleges with at least 12 students per faculty member and that enroll from 10,000 to 19,999 students.
after Carnegie Mellon (620, 12), closest are Boston College (610, 16), American Univ (590, 13), and Fordham (580, 14).

20. Carnegie Mellon has the 4th-highest elevation (317 meters) of the 59 colleges that are a member of the American Association of Universities.
outdone by U of Colorado Boulder (1,667 meters), U of Arizona (742 meters), and Penn State (353 meters).

21. Carnegie Mellon has the highest 75th percentile SAT reading score (720) of the 95 colleges with at most 3.7% Hispanics and that have a creative writing major.
after Carnegie Mellon (720, 3.7%), closest are Colby College (710, 3%), Spring Arbor Univ (680, 1.9%), and Pitt (680, 1.5%).

22. In the Mid Atlantic, only Carnegie Mellon has both as many full-time grad students (4,500) but as few yearly for-credit students (11,720).
closest are U of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (4,073, 6,411), Duquesne (3,668, 11,879), and Georgetown (6,469, 19,679).

23. Carnegie Mellon has the fewest undergrads among full-time students (51.4%) of all the 50 colleges that have a Chinese language program but don't grant medical degrees.
surpassed Oklahoma City Univ (61%), DePaul (63.8%), and Notre Dame (70.4%), and others.

24. Carnegie Mellon has the most out-of-state freshmen Texas residents (3.8%) of all the 19 colleges within 300 miles that have a Japanese language program.
outdid Swarthmore (3.6%), Wake Forest (3.4%), and Georgetown (3.2%), and others.

25. Carnegie Mellon has the 5th-most out-of-state freshmen California residents (10.2%) of the 35 colleges that have an architecture major and have an international affairs major.
outdone by Brown (15.6%), Bennington College (14.2%), and Wellesley (12.6%), and 1 other.

26. Carnegie Mellon has the fewest undergrads who are 25 years or older (1.9%) of the 158 colleges with at most a 12.2% tuition & fees increase over three years and that are in a large city.
after Carnegie Mellon (1.9%, 12.2%), closest are Clark Atlanta Univ (4.3%, 11.5%), Oklahoma Christian Univ (4.9%, 10.5%), and Wisconsin Lutheran College (5.5%, 12.2%).

27. Carnegie Mellon has the highest average grant aid to undergrads ($23,482) of all the 346 colleges that offer distance learning for course credit, don't have a law school, and whose top Masters major is business administration and management.
beat Rosemont College ($22,287), Canisius College ($20,389), and Millikin Univ ($18,739), and others.

28. Carnegie Mellon has the fewest in-state freshmen (17%) of the 64 colleges with at most 0.2% American Indians or Alaska Natives and that are research intensive.
after Carnegie Mellon (17%, 0.2%), closest are Boston Univ (19.6%, 0.2%), Tufts (19.7%, 0.2%), and Brandeis (20.6%, 0.2%).

29. Carnegie Mellon has the 5th-most NIH grant funding ($24.6M in 2010) of the 167 colleges that aren't a land-grant institution, accept the Common Application, have a PR, journalism, advertising, or applied communications major, don't play division I/FBS football, and don't provide a complete course of study during weekends or evenings.
beat out by NYU ($177.8M in 2010), Brown ($65.2M in 2010), and Stony Brook Univ ($57.0M in 2010), and 1 other.

30. Carnegie Mellon has the 3rd-highest full-time retention rate (96%) of the 236 colleges that have an engineering major, offer teacher certification, have a natural resources or conservation major, and were not attended by a U.S. President.
beat out by Dartmouth (97%) and Brown (97%).

31. Carnegie Mellon has the 5th-most total applicants (15,496) of the 23 colleges within 500 miles that are private & nonprofit, a top-Green college, not religiously affiliated, have a German major, have a Spanish major, have a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, have a computer science or technology major, don't have a hospital, and are on the semester system.
beat out by Boston Univ (37,795), NYU (37,464), and Cornell (36,338), and 1 other.

32. Carnegie Mellon has the most out-of-state freshmen New York residents (9.9%) of the 102 colleges that are as far or farther west, that grant doctorates and have a classics or classical language major.
closest are Tulane (9.6%), U of Miami (9.5%), and U of Chicago (8.8%).