The Objective College Ranking

Rank Institution 1 Harvey Mudd College 2 Claremont McKenna College 3 Scripps College 4 Occidental College 5 Trinity College 6 Pomona College 7 Wesleyan University 8 California Institute of Technology 9 Colorado College 10 Mills College 11 Pepperdine University 12 Franklin W Olin College of Engineering 13 San Francisco Art Institute 14 Dominican University of California 15 Amherst College 16 Stanford University 17 Whittier College 18 Yale University 19 University of Chicago 20 Williams College 21 Bowdoin College 22 Colby College 23 Westmont College 24 Menlo College 25 Carleton College 26 Rollins College 27 Babson College 28 Saint Mary's College of California 29 Earlham College 30 Chapman University 31 Wellesley College 32 Macalester College 33 Illinois Institute of Technology 34 Vassar College 35 Northwestern University 36 Johns Hopkins University 37 Brandeis University 38 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 39 Hamilton College 40 Tufts University 41 School of the Art Institute of Chicago 42 Southern California Institute of Architecture 43 Lake Forest College 44 Webb Institute 45 Dartmouth College 46 Loyola Marymount University 47 Alaska Pacific University 48 Emory University 49 DePauw University 50 Columbia University in the City of New York

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