A survey performed by The Daily Beast ranks the most stressful educational campuses in the United States. Take a look at the top fifty stress-out schools of higher learning, which probably will not include your local community college.

To determine the top stressed-out colleges and universities in the United States, The Daily Beast ( www.thedailybeast.com/ ) used rankings from the "2010 U.S. News and World Report" and data from the U.S. Department of Education (ED).

The survey also took into consideration five important criteria in the determination of stressful educational institutions:

(1) Cost (including tuition and room and board), (2) Academic competitiveness, (3) Acceptance rate, (4) Engineering graduate curriculum, and (5) Campus crime.



The Daily Beast also used a method of analysis developed by Keith Anderson, who is affiliated with the American College Health Association.



In addition, the article "New Data on the Nature of Suicidal Crises in College Students,' which was published in 2009 within the journal Professional Psychology, was used in the study.



Page two reveals the top colleges and universities in the United States that are, needless to say, some of the most prestigious educational institutions in the country; and, also, among the top stress inducing ones, too.

So, here is the list. Are you going to Stress University?

The top twenty colleges and universities in the U.S.A. with respect to stressful conditions are:



1. Stanford University (California)

2. Columbia University (New York)

3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

4. University of Pennsylvania

5. Harvard University (Massachusetts)

6. Princeton University (New Jersey)

7. Vanderbilt University (Tennessee)

8. Carnegie Mellon University (Pennsylvania)

9. California Institute of Technology

10. Northwestern University (Illinois)

11. University of Chicago (Illinois)

12. Yale University (New Jersey)

13. Washington University in St. Louis (Missouri)

14. Dartmouth College (New Hampshire)

15. Johns Hopkins University (Maryland)

16. Duke University (North Carolina)

17. Cornell University (New York)

18. University of Southern California

19. Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.)

20. Brown University (Rhode Island)



Check out The Daily Beast article 'The Fifty Most Stressful Colleges' for more detailed information on these top twenty stressed out educational institutions across the United States of America, along with the other 30 institutions that make up the stressed out top fifty.