The Objective College Ranking

Rank Institution 1 University of Southern California 2 George Washington University 3 Stanford University 4 Occidental College 5 Wesleyan University 6 Harvey Mudd College 7 University of California-Los Angeles 8 University of California-Berkeley 9 Claremont McKenna College 10 Trinity College 11 Pepperdine University 12 Scripps College 13 Chapman University 14 Yale University 15 Pomona College 16 University of Chicago 17 University of Central Florida 18 Emory University 19 Northwestern University 20 Colorado College 21 University of Miami 22 Loyola Marymount University 23 University of California-Davis 24 University of San Francisco 25 University of California-San Diego 26 Mills College 27 California Institute of Technology 28 American University 29 Boston University 30 Saint Mary's College of California 31 Whittier College 32 Dominican University of California 33 Tulane University of Louisiana 34 University of California-Irvine 35 Boston College 36 New York University 37 University of Arizona 38 University of the Pacific 39 University of Florida 40 Rollins College 41 University of Denver 42 Tufts University 43 Westmont College 44 San Francisco Art Institute 45 Harvard University 46 Quinnipiac University 47 Johns Hopkins University 48 University of California-Riverside 49 University of La Verne 50 The University of Alabama

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