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Academic ValueTM

Rankings

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The Best Colleges You Can Get Into 

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Colleges rank highest when they have:

Smart students: HS rank and ACT scores

Happy students: Retention and Grad rates

Higher acceptance rates than their peers

Rank     School

  1. Wheaton College (IL)

  2. Centre College

  3. Worcester Polytechnic WPI

  4. Rose–Hulman Institute of Technology

  5. Stevens Institute of Technology

  6. University of Pittsburgh

  7. Mount Holyoke College

  8. University of Georgia

  9. University of Maryland

  10. Colorado School of Mines

  11. Kalamazoo College

  12. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  13. University of Wisconsin

  14. Santa Clara University

  15. Virginia Tech

  16. University of Florida

  17. Texas A&M University

  18. Gonzaga University

  19. Whitman College

  20. University of Virginia

  21. The Ohio State University

  22. Brigham Young University

  23. Bentley University

  24. Willamette University

  25. Indiana University

  26. University of Rochester

  27. Rensselaer Polytechnic RPI

  28. College of the Holy Cross

  29. University of Texas - Austin

  30. Rhodes College

  31. Clemson University

  32. North Carolina State University

  33. Florida State University

  34. Smith College

  35. Marquette University

  36. Boston College

  37. Union College (NY)

  38. Case Western Reserve University

  39. Macalester College

  40. University of Washington

  41. Colgate University

  42. University of Michigan

  43. Fairfield University

  44. Wofford College

  45. Brandeis University

  46. Bryn Mawr College

  47. Furman University

  48. Kenyon College

  49. Lewis & Clark College

  50. Villanova University

  51. University of Puget Sound

  52. Clark University

  53. Loyola Marymount University

  54. Southern Methodist University

  55. Lawrence University

  56. Saint Louis University

  57. Grinnell College

  58. Hendrix College

  59. Miami University (Ohio)

  60. Rutgers–The State University of New Jersey

  61. UC Davis

  62. University of Connecticut

  63. Juniata College

  64. University of Delaware

  65. University of Vermont

  66. Illinois Wesleyan University

  67. Reed College

  68. Occidental College

  69. Loyola University (MD)

  70. Rochester Institute of Technology

  71. Butler University

  72. University of Notre Dame

  73. Franklin & Marshall College

  74. New York University NYU

  75. University of Tennessee Knoxville

  76. UC San Diego

  77. Auburn University

  78. St. Lawrence University

  79. Vassar College

  80. Truman State University

  81. Baylor University

  82. The College of William & Mary

  83. UC Santa Cruz

  84. University of Texas at Dallas

  85. SUNY – Binghamton University

  86. University of Massachusetts - Amherst

  87. Penn State University

  88. Fordham University

  89. Connecticut College

  90. Bennington College

  91. Emerson College

  92. Haverford College

  93. DePauw University

  94. Washington and Lee University

  95. St. Olaf College

  96. University of Missouri

  97. Purdue University

  98. Georgia Tech

  99. The Catholic University of America

  100. UC Irvine

  101. Dickinson College

  102. Earlham College

  103. Hamilton College

  104. Providence College

  105. Scripps College

  106. Pepperdine University

  107. Gettysburg College

  108. Wake Forest University

  109. University of South Carolina

  110. George Washington University

  111. Bucknell University

  112. Gustavus Adolphus College

  113. Bard College

  114. Skidmore College

  115. Carleton College

  116. The College of New Jersey

  117. Michigan State University

  118. University of San Diego

  119. Williams College

  120. Syracuse University

  121. Knox College

  122. University of Minnesota

  123. Seattle University

  124. Illinois Institute of Technology

  125. University of Richmond

  126. Calvin College

  127. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  128. Tulane University

  129. Bryant University

  130. Wheaton College (MA)

  131. Muhlenberg College

  132. Emory University

  133. Clarkson University

  134. Wellesley College

  135. Lehigh University

  136. Hobart and William Smith Colleges

  137. Sarah Lawrence College

  138. Drexel University

  139. Carnegie Mellon University

  140. College of Wooster

  141. Northeastern University

  142. University of Colorado - Boulder

  143. Allegheny College

  144. UC Santa Barbara

  145. Rice University

  146. Elon University

  147. University of Denver

  148. Lafayette College

  149. Denison University

  150. Saint Michael's College

  151. Davidson College

  152. Chapman University

  153. Washington University in St. Louis

  154. University of Miami (FL)

  155. Arizona State University

  156. College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University

  157. University of California - Berkeley

  158. Oberlin College

  159. SUNY–University at Buffalo

  160. Bates College

  161. New College of Florida

  162. Babson College

  163. University of Oklahoma

  164. University of San Francisco

  165. Ithaca College

  166. University of California - UCLA

  167. Trinity College

  168. SUNY–Stony Brook University

  169. University of Kentucky

  170. University of Southern California

  171. George Mason University

  172. SUNY–College at Geneseo

  173. University of Iowa

  174. Middlebury College

  175. University of Dayton

  176. Harvey Mudd College

  177. Georgetown University

  178. University of Kansas

  179. Iowa State University

  180. Texas Christian University

  181. University of Redlands

  182. Wabash College

  183. University of Tulsa

  184. Gordon College

  185. Ursinus College

  186. American University

  187. James Madison University

  188. University of Massachusetts - Lowell

  189. UC Riverside

  190. Rollins College

  191. Trinity University

  192. University of the Pacific

  193. University of the South (Sewanee)

  194. Boston University

  195. Olin College of Engineering

  196. Washington College

  197. Cornell University

  198. Amherst College

  199. Drew University

  200. New Jersey Institute of Technology

  201. University of Oregon

  202. Lake Forest College

  203. Wesleyan University

  204. College of the Atlantic

  205. Agnes Scott College

  206. Barnard College

  207. University of Arizona

  208. Bowdoin College

  209. Principia College

  210. University of Arkansas

  211. Colorado College

  212. University of Alabama

  213. Hofstra University

  214. Westmont College

  215. Stonehill College

  216. Oregon State University

  217. Seton Hall University

  218. Vanderbilt University

  219. University of Cincinnati

  220. St. Mary’s College of Maryland

  221. Colby College

  222. Beloit College

  223. Colorado State University

  224. St. John’s College

  225. The Johns Hopkins University

  226. Susquehanna University

  227. University of New Hampshire

  228. Tufts University

  229. Mills College

  230. Swarthmore College

  231. Rhode Island School of Design

  232. Louisiana State University

  233. Florida Institute of Technology

  234. College of Charleston

  235. Duke Univesity

  236. Southwestern University

  237. Cornell College

  238. Marist College

  239. California Institute of Technology

  240. Birmingham-Southern College

  241. University of Rhode Island

  242. University of Maryland Baltimore County

  243. University of North Carolina Wilmington

  244. University of Pennsylvania

  245. Washington and Jefferson College

  246. Quinnipiac University

  247. Dartmouth College

  248. Adelphi University

  249. Stetson University

  250. University of Mississippi

  251. Northwestern University

  252. University of Chicago

  253. University of Dallas

  254. Pitzer College

  255. Hollins University

  256. Coast Guard Academy

  257. Presbyterian College

  258. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  259. University of Nebraska–Lincoln

  260. The Cooper Union

  261. Goucher College

  262. DePaul University

  263. Houghton College

  264. Ohio Wesleyan University

  265. Columbia University

  266. Claremont McKenna College

  267. Pomona College

  268. Florida Southern College

  269. University of Minnesota, Morris

  270. Roger Williams University

  271. Wentworth Institute of Technology

  272. Antioch College

  273. University of Mary Washington

  274. Endicott College

  275. Loyola University New Orleans

  276. Brown University

  277. University of North Carolina Asheville

  278. Yale University

  279. Princeton University

  280. United States Air Force Academy

  281. Oglethorpe University

  282. High Point University

  283. Ohio University

  284. Hood College

  285. West Virginia University

  286. Harvard College

  287. University of Maine–Orono

  288. University of Hawaii – Manoa

  289. Texas Tech University

  290. Sacred Heart University

  291. Wittenberg University

  292. Lang – The New School

  293. Champlain College

  294. United States Naval Academy

  295. University of Utah

  296. Suffolk University

  297. Stanford University

  298. SUNY–University at Albany

  299. Ripon College

  300. Mass College of Pharmacy - MCPHS

  301. Howard University

  302. Merrimack College

  303. Austin College

  304. Hartwick College

  305. Spelman College

  306. SUNY–Purchase College

  307. University of Massachusetts - Boston

  308. Millsaps College

  309. Eckerd College

  310. University of Hartford

  311. Whittier College

  312. Alfred University

  313. Evergreen State College

  314. United States Military Academy - Army

  315. Prescott College

  316. University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth

  317. Xavier University of Louisiana

  318. Hampden-Sydney College

  319. Alma College

  320. Warren Wilson College

  321. Randolph College

  322. Manhattanville College

  323. The College of Idaho

  324. Wells College

  325. Guilford College

  326. Hiram College

  327. Albion College

  328. Morehouse College

  329. University of New Mexico

  330. Curry College

  331. Framingham State University

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