Academics -- Overall
Along with Sports, Cost and Quality of Life, Academics is one of the four major categories used to compare the schools. In order to get an overall comparison, the schools are compared on the following sub-categories:
- SAT scores (highest to lowest)
Overall number of National Merit Scholars
- Number of National Merit Scholars per student
- Percentage of students who were in their top 10% of their high scool class
- Percentage of applicants accepted (lowest to highest)
- Number of faculty awards
- Number of National Academy Members among the faculty
- Number of National Academy Members among the faculty per student
Each school is then graded in each of the subcategories and then averaged for an overall score. They are then ranked numerically, with the results below.
Schools | Rank Academic |
Harvard University | 1 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2 |
Princeton University | 3 |
Yale University | 4 |
Stanford University | 5 |
California Institute of Technology | 6 |
Washington University in St. Louis | 7 |
University of Pennsylvania | 8 |
Columbia University | 9 |
Duke University | 10 |
Rice University | 11 |
University of Chicago | 12 |
Johns Hopkins University | 13 |
Dartmouth College | 14 |
University of California | 15 |
Northwestern University | 15 |
Brown University | 17 |
Cornell University | 18 |
University of Southern California | 19 |
University of California (UCLA) | 20 |
Emory University | 21 |
University of North Carolina | 22 |
Vanderbilt University | 23 |
University of Michigan | 24 |
Williams College | 25 |
Georgia Institute of Technology | 26 |
Georgetown University | 27 |
Amherst College | 28 |
New York University | 29 |
University of Virginia | 30 |
University of Notre Dame | 31 |
Tufts University | 32 |
Carnegie Mellon University | 33 |
Case Western Reserve University | 33 |
Brandeis University | 35 |
University of Texas | 36 |
Carleton College | 37 |
University of Florida | 38 |
Pomona College | 39 |
Middlebury College | 40 |
Bowdoin College | 41 |
University of Wisconsin | 42 |
Oberlin College | 43 |
Swarthmore College | 44 |
Macalaster College | 45 |
University of Maryland | 46 |
Tulane University | 47 |
Boston University | 48 |
Wesleyan University | 49 |
University of Illinois | 50 |
University of Washington | 51 |
Washington and Lee University | 52 |
Texas A&M University | 53 |
Ohio State University | 54 |
Wake Forest University | 55 |
Penn State University | 56 |
Wellesley College | 57 |
Cooper Union | 58 |
University of Minnesota | 59 |
Boston College | 59 |
Haverford College | 61 |
Vassar College | 62 |
University of Kansas | 63 |
Grinnell College | 64 |
Purdue University | 65 |
University of Miami | 66 |
University of Arizona | 67 |
Davidson College | 68 |
Iowa State University | 69 |
Bates College | 70 |
Rutgers | 71 |
University of Iowa | 72 |
University of Georgia | 73 |
Illinois Institute of Technology | 73 |
Smith College | 75 |
Brigham Young University | 76 |
Kenyon College | 77 |
Arizona State University | 78 |
University of Alabama | 79 |
Reed College | 80 |
Bryn Mawr College | 81 |
Florida State University | 82 |
U.S. Air Force Academy | 83 |
Michigan State University | 83 |
University of Colorado | 85 |
University of Oklahoma | 86 |
University of Kentucky | 86 |
U.S. Naval Academy | 88 |
Bucknell University | 89 |
University of Missouri | 90 |
Sarah Lawrence College | 91 |
College of the Atlantic | 92 |
Trinity University | 93 |
University of Arkansas | 94 |
Villanova University | 95 |
University of South Carolina | 96 |
Mount Holyoke College | 97 |
University of Nebraska | 98 |
Louisiana State University | 99 |
Gonzaga University | 100 |
Indiana University | 101 |
University of Oregon | 102 |
College of New Jersey | 102 |
Wheaton College | 104 |
University of Mississippi | 105 |
University of Tennessee | 106 |
New School University | 107 |
University of Cincinnati | 108 |
St. John's College (Md) | 109 |
Rhode Island School of Design | 110 |
Abilene Christian University | 111 |
Oklahoma State University | 112 |
Juilliard School | 113 |
North Dakota State University | 114 |
DePaul University | 115 |
Temple University | 116 |
Hollins University | 117 |
Culinary Institute of America | 118 |
Lincoln University | 119 |
San Diego State University | 120 |
North Central College | 121 |
Tuskegee University | 122 |
St. Augustine's College | 123 |
Florida Southern College | 124 |
Methodist College | 125 |
Adams State College | 126 |