The Objective College Ranking

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

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