The Objective College Ranking

Rank Institution 1 University of Richmond 2 Whitman College 3 Washington and Lee University 4 Middlebury College 5 Vassar College 6 Reed College 7 Bucknell University 8 Dickinson College 9 Oberlin College 10 Kenyon College 11 Haverford College 12 University of Puget Sound 13 Ursinus College 14 Hamilton College 15 Southern Methodist University 16 Bryn Mawr College 17 Skidmore College 18 Swarthmore College 19 Carnegie Mellon University 20 Barnard College 21 Rhode Island School of Design 22 Lafayette College 23 Villanova University 24 Columbia University in the City of New York 25 Providence College 26 Muhlenberg College 27 Pratt Institute-Main 28 Drew University 29 Brown University 30 Willamette University 31 Macalester College 32 Lewis & Clark College 33 University of Rochester 34 Carleton College 35 Amherst College 36 Williams College 37 Saint Michael's College 38 Davidson College 39 Webb Institute 40 The College of Wooster 41 Brandeis University 42 University of Pennsylvania 43 Colby College 44 Franklin W Olin College of Engineering 45 Dartmouth College 46 Ohio Wesleyan University 47 Tufts University 48 Wellesley College 49 Vanderbilt University 50 Bowdoin College

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