An annual national list of the best colleges in America has been released, and two from Delaware are included in the 745-school report.

The 10th annual Best Colleges list from Money, the personal finance website, and SoFi, a digital financial service, came out Wednesday.

Both the University of Delaware and Delaware State University made the cut. However, neither was awarded the highest five-star rating, earned by 54 schools out of the 745 listed.

Report analysis of the Delaware universities

The University of Delaware earned 4½ stars with the report noting a 74% acceptance rate and a graduation rate of 79%.

The Newark-based university, which has an enrollment of 23,613, costs an estimated $33,700 if paying full price for the 2024-2025 year or $19,100 if you factor in average grants, according to Money.

Down in Dover, Delaware State University was designated with three stars with the analysis listing a 55% acceptance rate and 50% graduation rate.

The Historically Black College and University, which has 6,451 students, costs an estimated $30,100 full price for 2024-2025 or $12,600 if you factor in average grants, according to the report.

2024 five-star ‘Best Colleges,’ according to Money and SoFi

• Amherst College

• Babson College

• Bentley University

• Berea College

• Boston College

• Bowdoin College

• Brown University

• California Institute of Technology

• California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

• California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

• California State University, Long Beach

• California State University, Stanislaus

• Carnegie Mellon University

• Claremont McKenna College

• Columbia University

• Cornell University

• CUNY Bernard M. Baruch College

• Dartmouth College

• Davidson College

• Duke University

• Georgetown University

• Georgia Institute of Technology

• Harvard University

• Harvey Mudd College

• Johns Hopkins University

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Massachusetts Maritime Academy

• New Jersey Institute of Technology

• Northwestern University

• Pomona College

• Princeton University

• Rice University

• Stanford University

• Swarthmore College

• The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art

• University of California, Berkeley

• University of California, Davis

• University of California, Irvine

• University of California, Los Angeles

• University of California, Riverside

• University of California, San Diego

• University of Chicago

• University of Florida

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• University of Michigan

• University of Notre Dame

• University of Pennsylvania

• Virginia Military Institute

• Washington and Lee University

• Washington University in St Louis

• Wellesley College

• Wesleyan University

• Williams College

• Yale University

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This article originally appeared on Delaware News Journal: 2024 Best Colleges in America: 2 Delaware institutions make list