The Objective College Ranking

Rank Institution 1 Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus 2 New York University 3 University of Southern California 4 Boston University 5 Ohio State University-Main Campus 6 Cornell University 7 Texas A & M University-College Station 8 Northeastern University 9 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 10 Drexel University 11 Michigan State University 12 University of California-Los Angeles 13 University of Pennsylvania 14 The University of Texas at Austin 15 Columbia University in the City of New York 16 Syracuse University 17 Northwestern University 18 Rutgers University-New Brunswick 19 Boston College 20 University of Miami 21 Duke University 22 Vanderbilt University 23 Brown University 24 George Washington University 25 University of Chicago 26 Fordham University 27 University of California-Berkeley 28 University of California-San Diego 29 Stanford University 30 University of Washington-Seattle Campus 31 Carnegie Mellon University 32 Tulane University of Louisiana 33 Purdue University-Main Campus 34 Washington University in St Louis 35 Harvard University 36 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 37 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 38 Yale University 39 Rochester Institute of Technology 40 Indiana University-Bloomington 41 Baylor University 42 Johns Hopkins University 43 University of California-Davis 44 University of Rochester 45 Dartmouth College 46 Villanova University 47 University of California-Irvine 48 Tufts University 49 Emory University 50 Southern Methodist 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