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 |
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