13. Tulane University
Location: New Orleans, LA
Class of 2016 Applied: 60
Class of 2016 Accepted: 17
Tulane has both an uptown and a downtown campus in the Big Easy. Its School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine is the only one of its kind in the U.S., and the school received funding from the National Institutes of Health to establish an International Center of Excellence in Malaria Research for West and Central Africa. Female students receive extra support through the Newcomb College Institute, which offers mentors to young women. U.S. News & World Report ranked the school #39 among national universities.