The Objective College Ranking

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