Students graduating from one of the top 25 schools on the list join the workforce with between $4,000 and $17,000 in debt on average, according to the report.
Average debt incurred by students at the top 25 universities in America:
1. Princeton (N.J.) University: $7,559
2. Stanford (Calif.) University: $12,999
3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge): $13,792
4. Yale University (New Haven, Conn.): $4,926
5. University of California, Berkeley: $7,238
6. Columbia University (New York City): $16,849
7. University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia): $12,499
8. Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.): $9,004
9. Rice University (Houston): $10,818
10. Cornell University (Ithaca, N.Y.): $8,309
11. Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.): $6,973
12. Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore): $9,843
13. University of California, Los Angeles: $6,418
14. University of Chicago: $12,150
15. Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tenn.): $8,872
16. Dartmouth College (Hanover, N.H.): $6,404
17. Williams College (Williamstown, Mass.): $4,143
18. Brown University (Providence, R.I.): $10,059
19. Claremont (Calif.) McKenna College: $7,631
20. Duke University (Durham, N.C.): $6,351
21. University of California San Diego: $6,437
22. California Institute of Technology (Pasadena): $12,553
23. Wellesley (Mass.) College: $5,608
24. Amherst (Mass.) College: $9,293
25. Bowdoin College (Brunswick, Maine): $10,512
