The Objective College Ranking

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

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