The Objective College Ranking

Rank Institution 1 Whitman College 2 University of Richmond 3 Reed College 4 Middlebury College 5 Vassar College 6 Dickinson College 7 Washington and Lee University 8 Oberlin College 9 Haverford College 10 Bucknell University 11 Bryn Mawr College 12 Kenyon College 13 Southern New Hampshire University 14 Barnard College 15 Ursinus College 16 Hamilton College 17 University of Puget Sound 18 Southern Methodist University 19 Rhode Island School of Design 20 Skidmore College 21 Swarthmore College 22 Lafayette College 23 Villanova University 24 Providence College 25 Muhlenberg College 26 Drew University 27 Pratt Institute-Main 28 Webb Institute 29 Franklin W Olin College of Engineering 30 Lewis & Clark College 31 Carleton College 32 Macalester College 33 University of Rochester 34 Willamette University 35 Carnegie Mellon University 36 Davidson College 37 Wellesley College 38 Amherst College 39 Williams College 40 Saint Michael's College 41 The College of Wooster 42 Brandeis University 43 Colby College 44 Columbia University in the City of New York 45 Ohio Wesleyan University 46 Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art 47 Saint Joseph's University 48 Polytechnic Institute of New York University 49 Seattle University 50 Bowdoin 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