The Objective College Ranking

Rank Institution 1 Brown University 2 University of Chicago 3 Stanford University 4 Columbia University in the City of New York 5 Yale University 6 Vanderbilt University 7 Duke University 8 Northwestern University 9 University of Southern California 10 University of California-Los Angeles 11 Tulane University of Louisiana 12 Washington University in St Louis 13 Dartmouth College 14 Harvard University 15 University of Pennsylvania 16 Cornell University 17 Northeastern University 18 Tufts University 19 New York University 20 Princeton University 21 Johns Hopkins University 22 Barnard College 23 George Washington University 24 Wesleyan University 25 Boston College 26 Vassar College 27 Wellesley College 28 University of California-Berkeley 29 Pomona College 30 Amherst College 31 Fordham University 32 Boston University 33 Emory University 34 Middlebury College 35 Bowdoin College 36 Williams College 37 Claremont McKenna College 38 Carleton College 39 Swarthmore College 40 Pepperdine University 41 Scripps College 42 Skidmore College 43 Trinity College 44 Oberlin College 45 Rice University 46 Brandeis University 47 Macalester College 48 Occidental College 49 University of Rochester 50 University of Richmond

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