The Objective College Ranking

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