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