The Objective College Ranking

Rank Institution 1 University of Southern California 2 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 3 Cornell University 4 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 5 Columbia University in the City of New York 6 University of Chicago 7 Purdue University-Main Campus 8 Stanford University 9 George Washington University 10 Rochester Institute of Technology 11 University of Pennsylvania 12 Michigan State University 13 New York University 14 Carnegie Mellon University 15 Ohio State University-Main Campus 16 Washington University in St Louis 17 University of Miami 18 Trinity College 19 Tufts University 20 Yale University 21 Wesleyan University 22 Texas A & M University-College Station 23 Dartmouth College 24 Tulane University of Louisiana 25 Northwestern University 26 Emory University 27 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 28 The University of Texas at Austin 29 Harvey Mudd College 30 Occidental College 31 Brown University 32 Claremont McKenna College 33 Johns Hopkins University 34 Harvard University 35 Williams College 36 Duke University 37 Boston College 38 Carleton College 39 Colorado College 40 Pepperdine University 41 Bowdoin College 42 Amherst College 43 Colby College 44 Pomona College 45 Chapman University 46 Brandeis University 47 Bucknell University 48 Northeastern University 49 Indiana University-Bloomington 50 Drexel University

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