The Objective College Ranking

Rank Institution 1 New York University 2 Stanford University 3 Columbia University in the City of New York 4 University of Southern California 5 University of Chicago 6 Northeastern University 7 Brown University 8 Harvard University 9 Cornell University 10 Fordham University 11 Tulane University of Louisiana 12 Duke University 13 Yale University 14 Washington University in St Louis 15 Vanderbilt University 16 University of Pennsylvania 17 Dartmouth College 18 Northwestern University 19 Boston University 20 Princeton University 21 Tufts University 22 Carnegie Mellon University 23 Johns Hopkins University 24 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 25 Drexel University 26 University of Miami 27 George Washington University 28 Boston College 29 University of California-Los Angeles 30 Case Western Reserve University 31 University of Rochester 32 Emory University 33 Rice University 34 University of Richmond 35 Wesleyan University 36 Vassar College 37 Middlebury College 38 Amherst College 39 Skidmore College 40 Quinnipiac University 41 Bucknell University 42 Williams College 43 Trinity College 44 Carleton College 45 Washington and Lee University 46 Syracuse University 47 Bowdoin College 48 Brandeis University 49 Swarthmore College 50 Baylor University

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