The Objective College Ranking

Rank Institution 1 Whitman College 2 Reed College 3 University of Richmond 4 Washington and Lee University 5 Bucknell University 6 Middlebury College 7 Dickinson College 8 Haverford College 9 Vassar College 10 Oberlin College 11 Kenyon College 12 Ursinus College 13 Hamilton College 14 University of Puget Sound 15 Bryn Mawr College 16 Lafayette College 17 Carnegie Mellon University 18 Swarthmore College 19 Skidmore College 20 Rhode Island School of Design 21 Drew University 22 Southern Methodist University 23 Webb Institute 24 Barnard College 25 Franklin W Olin College of Engineering 26 Providence College 27 Muhlenberg College 28 Carleton College 29 Williams College 30 Villanova University 31 Amherst College 32 Macalester College 33 Davidson College 34 Willamette University 35 Colby College 36 Lewis & Clark College 37 Pratt Institute-Main 38 University of Rochester 39 Saint Michael's College 40 The College of Wooster 41 Brandeis University 42 Polytechnic Institute of New York University 43 Bowdoin College 44 Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art 45 Ohio Wesleyan University 46 Hampden-Sydney College 47 Babson College 48 Trinity College 49 Dartmouth College 50 Wellesley College

Please note that unlike most other college ranking methods out there, our ranking is based solely on objective, measurable data, such as student test scores and the like. There are no subjective factors considered at all. The main factors used in the ranking, as well as their weights in the ranking formula, are given below It is also our goal to give you the college ranking that is most appropriate for you. Hence, if you do not like this ranking, just refresh the page until you do. As noted above, every single ranking given by this page is purely objective and therefore can be relied upon to give accurate results.

Key Ranking Factors