2017 Top Colleges
Rank
University
1
Stanford University
2
Princeton University
3
Harvard University
4
California Institute of Technology
5
Yale University
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
7
Columbia University
8
University of Chicago
9
University of Pennsylvania
10
Cornell University
11
Northwestern University
12
Washington University in St Louis
13
Duke University
14
Rice University
15
Dartmouth College
16
University of Southern California
17
Johns Hopkins University
18
Tufts University
19
University of Notre Dame
20
Carnegie Mellon University
21
University of California, Los Angeles
22
Emory University
23
Vanderbilt University
24
Williams College
25
Amherst College
26
Brown University
27
Middlebury College
28
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
29
New York University
30
University of Miami
31
Pomona College
32
Wellesley College
33
Haverford College
34
Case Western Reserve University
35
Smith College
36
Georgetown University
37
Claremont McKenna College
38
University of California, Berkeley
39
Purdue University West Lafayette
40
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
41
Swarthmore College
42
Boston University
43
Bowdoin College
44
Wesleyan University
45
University of Texas at Austin
46
Carleton College
47
University of California, Davis
48
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
49
University of Rochester
50
Bryn Mawr College
51
University of California, San Diego
52
Georgia Institute of Technology
53
Bucknell University
54
Lehigh University
55
University of Virginia
56
Colgate University
57
Wake Forest University
58
University of Washington-Seattle
59
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
60
Oberlin College
61
George Washington University
62
Macalester College
63
University of Wisconsin-Madison
64
Ohio State University
65
University of Florida
66
Hamilton College
67
University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh campus
68
Boston College
69
Michigan State University
70
Trinity University
71
Colby College
72
Vassar College
73
Trinity College
74
Denison University
75
Lafayette College
76
Tulane University
77
Grinnell College
78
Northeastern University
79
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
80
Drexel University
81
Barnard College
82
University of Richmond
83
Davidson College
84
William & Mary
85
Texas A&M University-College Station
86
Scripps College
87
DePauw University
88
Occidental College
89
Howard University
90
Pennsylvania State University
91
College of the Holy Cross
92
Southern Methodist University
93
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
94
University of Maryland, College Park
95
Brandeis University
96
Bentley University
97
Stevens Institute of Technology
98
Brigham Young University-Provo
99
University of Denver
100
Rhode Island School of Design
101
Bates College
102
Kenyon College
103
Connecticut College
104
Spelman College
105
Pepperdine University
106
Franklin & Marshall College
107
Union College
108
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
109
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
110
University of Illinois at Chicago
111
Washington and Lee University
112
Villanova University
113
The College of Wooster
114
Syracuse University
115
University of California, Santa Barbara
116
Seattle University
117
Loyola Marymount University
118
Gettysburg College
119
University of Connecticut
120
Babson College
121
Saint Louis University
122
Dickinson College
123
Illinois Institute of Technology
124
Indiana University Bloomington
125
Mount Holyoke College
126
University of the Pacific
127
Pitzer College
128
Furman University
129
Arizona State University
130
Santa Clara University
131
ArtCenter College of Design
132
Colorado College
133
North Carolina State University at Raleigh
134
University at Buffalo
135
Reed College
136
Rutgers University-Newark
137
Clarkson University
138
University of Delaware
139
Rochester Institute of Technology
140
Creighton University
141
Gustavus Adolphus College
142
Skidmore College
143
Allegheny College
144
Colorado School of Mines
145
Stony Brook University
146
Yeshiva University
147
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
148
Drake University
149
Bradley University
150
Centre College
151
Ohio Northern University
152
Berea College
153
Rhodes College
154
Michigan Technological University
155
Elon University
156
St Olaf College
157
Hampton University
158
Loyola University Chicago
159
University of California, Irvine
160
University of Arizona
161
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
162
Butler University
163
Marquette University
164
Illinois Wesleyan University
165
Willamette University
166
Sewanee-The University of the South
167
University of Iowa
168
Susquehanna University
169
University of San Diego
170
Wheaton College (Massachusetts)
171
University of Tulsa
172
Albion College
173
Saint Mary's College
174
University of Massachusetts Amherst
175
Kalamazoo College
176
University of Puget Sound
177
Muhlenberg College
178
Loyola University Maryland
179
University of Dayton
180
St Lawrence University
181
Lewis & Clark College
182
Stonehill College
183
Ursinus College
184
Missouri University of Science and Technology
185
Baylor University
186
Simmons College
187
Whitman College
188
Bryant University
189
Ithaca College
190
Molloy College
191
Temple University
192
Texas Christian University
193
SUNY Binghamton University
194
University of Colorado Boulder
195
Fordham University
196
Mercer University
197
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach
198
Otis College of Art and Design
199
Virginia Military Institute
200
Knox College
201
Juniata College
202
Fairfield University
203
Washington College
204
Siena College
205
Ohio Wesleyan University
206
College of Saint Benedict
207
Wheaton College (Illinois)
208
University of San Francisco
209
University of Scranton
210
American University
211
Quinnipiac University
212
Kettering University
213
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
214
Earlham College
215
Clemson University
216
Manhattan College
217
Wofford College
218
Austin College
219
Washington & Jefferson College
220
Samford University
221
Chapman University
222
Florida State University
223
Florida Institute of Technology
224
Gonzaga University
225
Catholic University of America
226
Beloit College
227
Lawrence University
228
SUNY University at Albany
229
Lake Forest College
230
Marietta College
231
Rollins College
232
Duquesne University
233
Saint Anselm College
234
Xavier University
235
Clark University
236
Saint John's University
237
Hope College
238
Augustana College (Illinois)
239
Providence College
240
University of Detroit Mercy
241
Drew University
242
Dominican University of California
243
The College of New Jersey
244
Widener University
245
University of Alabama at Birmingham
246
University of Colorado Denver
247
University of the Sciences
248
Southwestern University
249
Mount Saint Mary's University
250
Westminster College (Pennsylvania)
251
Adelphi University
252
Hanover College
253
University of Georgia
254
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott
255
University of South Carolina-Columbia
256
California Institute of the Arts
257
George Mason University
258
Tuskegee University
259
Suffolk University
260
The University of Tennessee-Knoxville
261
Cornell College
262
College for Creative Studies
263
Washington State University
264
Rutgers University-Camden
265
Saint Mary's College of California
266
Alma College
267
John Carroll University
268
Luther College
269
Pace University-New York
270
Houghton College
271
Auburn University
272
Valparaiso University
273
St Mary's College of Maryland
274
DePaul University
275
Goucher College
276
Xavier University of Louisiana
277
Pratt Institute
278
University of Vermont
279
Westmont College
280
Sarah Lawrence College
281
Concordia College at Moorhead
282
Saint Francis University
283
La Salle University
284
Saint Joseph's University
285
Hampshire College
286
Elizabethtown College
287
Transylvania University
288
Hendrix College
289
Calvin College
290
St Mary's University
291
University of Saint Joseph
292
University of Kansas
293
Seton Hall University
294
Cedar Crest College
295
Coe College
296
Moravian College
297
University of Oklahoma
298
Rider University
299
CUNY Bernard M. Baruch College
300
Nazareth College
301
Queens University of Charlotte
302
Illinois College
303
Pacific Lutheran University
304
University of Washington-Bothell
305
CUNY City College of New York
306
University of Utah
307
Bellarmine University
308
Oregon State University
309
Andrews University
310
Fairleigh Dickinson University
311
Augustana College (South Dakota)
312
Baldwin Wallace University
313
Miami University
314
Hampden-Sydney College
315
Bard College
316
Iowa State University
317
University of Portland
318
University of Washington-Tacoma
319
Western New England University
320
University of Redlands
321
Rowan University
322
University of Missouri-Columbia
323
Hofstra University
324
Saint Michael's College
325
Lebanon Valley College
326
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
327
William Jewell College
328
University of Nevada, Reno
329
Morehouse College
330
Georgetown College
331
University of Mississippi
332
Lawrence Technological University
333
Elmhurst College
334
Saint Vincent College
335
University of New England
336
University of Mount Union
337
California College of the Arts
338
Philadelphia University
339
Pacific University
340
University of California, Santa Cruz
341
University of Cincinnati-Uptown
342
Azusa Pacific University
343
Wartburg College
344
Whittier College
345
West Virginia University
346
Wayne State University
347
Campbell University
348
Hiram College
349
University of St Thomas
350
Assumption College
351
University of Hawai-i at M-noa
352
Hartwick College
353
Point Loma Nazarene University
354
St Joseph's College-New York
355
Stetson University
356
Taylor University
357
University of Texas at Dallas
358
Merrimack College
359
CUNY Hunter College
360
Colorado State University-Fort Collins
361
Milwaukee School of Engineering
362
CUNY Brooklyn College
363
Eckerd College
364
St Catherine University
365
University of Hartford
366
Le Moyne College
367
Union University
368
University of Louisville
369
Marian University (Indiana))
370
University of Missouri-Kansas City
371
Brigham Young University-Hawaii
372
Cedarville University
373
New Jersey Institute of Technology
374
University of California, Riverside
375
St Edward's University
376
Kansas State University
377
Albright College
378
Wittenberg University
379
Messiah College
380
LIU Post
381
Marist College
382
University of New Hampshire
383
University of Kentucky
384
University of Oregon
385
Clarke University
386
University of Houston
387
San Diego State University
388
University of Evansville
389
St John Fisher College
390
Doane College-Crete
391
Canisius College
392
University of Wyoming
393
Randolph-Macon College
394
Eastern Mennonite University
395
University of South Florida
396
John Brown University
397
McDaniel College
398
Capital University
399
Monmouth College
400
Millikin University
401
Montclair State University
402
University of Alabama
403
Norwich University
404
Oklahoma State University
405
Carroll College
406
Illinois State University
407
Seattle Pacific University
408
Otterbein University
409
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
410
St John's University-New York
411
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
412
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
413
St Norbert College
414
James Madison University
415
Marymount University
416
Augsburg College
417
SUNY New Paltz
418
Gordon College
419
New York Institute of Technology
420
Gannon University
421
University of Massachusetts Boston
422
King's College
423
Walla Walla University
424
Franklin College
425
Maryland Institute College of Art
426
CUNY Queens College
427
University of Arkansas
428
Eastern Illinois University
429
Oglethorpe University
430
Dordt College
431
LIU Brooklyn
432
Roanoke College
433
Belmont University
434
Central College
435
Misericordia University
436
East Carolina University
437
Roosevelt University
438
Hamline University
439
Salem College
440
Simpson College
441
Wagner College
442
Meredith College
443
Stevenson University
444
Louisiana State University
445
University of Indianapolis
446
St Bonaventure University
447
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
448
California State University, Long Beach
449
Winston-Salem State University
450
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
451
Nebraska Wesleyan University
452
Notre Dame of Maryland University
453
University of Central Florida
454
The College of St Scholastica
455
Lycoming College
456
The New School
457
Loyola University New Orleans
458
Berry College
459
Salve Regina University
460
Massachusetts Maritime Academy
461
Christian Brothers University
462
Emerson College
463
Roger Williams University
464
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
465
The University of the Arts
466
Alfred University
467
Virginia Commonwealth University
468
Trinity Christian College
469
MCPHS University
470
Wilkes University
471
University of Dallas
472
California State University, Chico
473
Whitworth University
474
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
475
St Ambrose University
476
Lincoln Memorial University
477
Spring Hill College
478
California Lutheran University
479
Northwestern College
480
Saint Xavier University
481
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
482
University of Michigan-Dearborn
483
College of Mount Saint Vincent
484
Barry University
485
Western Illinois University
486
Mississippi State University
487
Wentworth Institute of Technology
488
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
489
University of New Mexico
490
University of the District of Columbia
491
Ohio University
492
Birmingham-Southern College
493
Maryville University
494
Gwynedd Mercy University
495
Stockton University
496
Ferris State University
497
The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina
498
Chatham University
499
Chestnut Hill College
500
Southern Nazarene University