The Top 100 At a Glance

We updated and ranked this list of the top 100 colleges for 2009 (how we scored the schools). Clicking on the college names below will show you all of the ranking data. Most of our data come from Petersons, a Nelnet company.

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1 - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2 - University of Florida
3 - University of Virginia
4 - The College of William and Mary
5 - State University of New York at Binghamton
6 - University of Georgia
7 - University of Washington
8 - University of Maryland, College Park
9 - State University of New York College at Geneseo
10 - North Carolina State University
11 - University of California, San Diego
12 - New College of Florida
13 - University of California, Los Angeles
14 - University of Wisconsin -- Madison
15 - Georgia Institute of Technology
16 - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
17 - Florida State University
18 - University of California, Berkeley
19 - University of Michigan
20 - University of California, Irvine
21 - James Madison University
22 - Appalachian State University
23 - The College of New Jersey
24 - University of Delaware
25 - The University of Texas at Austin
26 - Truman State University
27 - The University of North Carolina at Wilmington
28 - Indiana University Bloomington
29 - University of California, Santa Barbara
30 - Texas A&M University
31 - The Ohio State University
32 - University of South Carolina
33 - Clemson University
34 - University of Connecticut
35 - University of Pittsburgh
36 - University of Central Florida
37 - St. Mary's College of Maryland
38 - University of Mary Washington
39 - Stony Brook University, State University of New York
40 - The Pennsylvania State University University Park Campus
41 - University of California, Davis
42 - New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
43 - University of Wisconsin -- La Crosse
44 - The University of North Carolina at Asheville
45 - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
46 - Purdue University
47 - Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
48 - Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick/Piscataway
49 - Ramapo College of New Jersey
50 - California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
51 - Michigan State University
52 - University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus
53 - State University of New York at New Paltz
54 - Western Washington University
55 - University of Arkansas
56 - College of Charleston
57 - University of Missouri -- Columbia
58 - The University of Tennessee
59 - Salisbury University
60 - University of South Florida
61 - North Carolina School of the Arts
62 - Miami University
63 - Auburn University
64 - George Mason University
65 - The University of Alabama
66 - University of Nebraska -- Lincoln
67 - University of Wisconsin -- Eau Claire
68 - University of California, Santa Cruz
69 - Colorado School of Mines
70 - University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
71 - Iowa State University of Science and Technology
72 - University of Vermont
73 - The University of Iowa
74 - University of Colorado at Boulder
75 - State University of New York College at Cortland
76 - West Chester University of Pennsylvania
77 - University of Oklahoma
78 - North Georgia College & State University
79 - University of Massachusetts Amherst
80 - The University of Texas at Dallas
81 - State University of New York College at Oneonta
82 - Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
83 - University of New Hampshire
84 - University at Albany, State University of New York
85 - University of Oregon
86 - University of Utah
87 - State University of New York, Fredonia
88 - Mississippi State University
89 - Illinois State University
90 - Georgia Southern University
91 - Oklahoma State University
92 - Louisiana Tech University
93 - University of Maryland, Baltimore County
94 - University of Missouri -- Rolla
95 - Washington State University
96 - State University of New York College at Brockport
97 - Towson University
98 - Millersville University of Pennsylvania
99 - Colorado State University
100 - Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania