The Objective College Ranking

Rank Institution 1 University of Richmond 2 Whitman College 3 Washington and Lee University 4 Middlebury College 5 University of Puget Sound 6 Haverford College 7 Reed College 8 Dickinson College 9 Southern Methodist University 10 Bucknell University 11 Carnegie Mellon University 12 Swarthmore College 13 Ursinus College 14 Saint Michael's College 15 Vanderbilt University 16 Hampden-Sydney College 17 Lafayette College 18 Oberlin College 19 Bryn Mawr College 20 Brown University 21 Providence College 22 Kenyon College 23 Vassar College 24 Rhode Island School of Design 25 Roanoke College 26 Villanova University 27 Seattle University 28 Willamette University 29 Marquette University 30 Muhlenberg College 31 Rice University 32 Hamilton College 33 Lewis & Clark College 34 Pacific Lutheran University 35 Randolph-Macon College 36 Skidmore College 37 Columbia University in the City of New York 38 Randolph College 39 Lynchburg College 40 Seattle Pacific University 41 Webb Institute 42 The College of Wooster 43 University of Rochester 44 Davidson College 45 Duke University 46 Fordham University 47 Sewanee-The University of the South 48 Barnard College 49 Case Western Reserve University 50 Dartmouth 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