The Objective College Ranking

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