2020 WSJ/THE College Rankings

Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings 2020 methodology

Wall Street Journal and Times Higher Education Release 2020 U.S. College Rankings

1 Harvard University (overall score 93.9 ) 2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (91.8) 3 Yale University (91.3) 4 University of Pennsylvania (90.4) 5 California Institute of Technology (90.2) 5 Princeton University (90.2) 7 Brown University (90.1) 7 Stanford University (90.1) 9 Cornell University (89.8) 10 Duke University (89.7)

11 Northwestern University (89) 12 Dartmouth College (88.8) 12 Johns Hopkins University (88.8) 14 University of Chicago (88.6) 15 Columbia University (88.4) 16 Rice University (88.1) 17 Vanderbilt University (87.3) 18 University of Southern California (86.1) 19 Washington University in St Louis (86) 20 Amherst College (84.6)

21 Williams College (84.3) 22 Emory University 23 Pomona College 24 Wellesley College 25 University of California, Los Angeles 25 Carnegie Mellon University 27 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 28 Swarthmore College 29 Georgetown University 30 Tufts University

31 New York University (80.7) 32 University of Notre Dame 33 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 34 University of California, Berkeley 35 Middlebury College 36 University of California, Davis 37 University of California, San Diego 38 Claremont McKenna College 39 Haverford College 40 Carleton College

41 Smith College (77.3) 42 University of Washington-Seattle 43 Wesleyan University 44 Boston University 44 Bowdoin College 46 Purdue University West Lafayette 47 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 48 Colgate University 49 University of Miami 50 University of Virginia

51 Barnard College (74.5) 52 Case Western Reserve University 53 Bryn Mawr College 54 Davidson College 55 Lehigh University 56 Vassar College 57 Grinnell College 58 University of Rochester 59 Boston College 59 Hamilton College

61 Mount Holyoke College (72.6) 61 University of Texas at Austin 63 Bates College 63 University of Florida 65 Scripps College 66 University of Richmond 67 University of Wisconsin-Madison 68 Georgia Institute of Technology 68 Wake Forest University 70 Washington and Lee University

71 University of California, Santa Barbara (70.5) 72 George Washington University 73 University of California, Irvine 74 Bucknell University 75 University of Maryland, College Park 75 Reed College 77 Pitzer College 78 Texas A&M University-College Station 79 William & Mary 80 United States Naval Academy

81 University of Illinois at Chicago (68.2) 81 Michigan State University 83 Macalester College 84 Southern Methodist University 84 Tulane University 86 Ohio State University 87 Lafayette College 87 Santa Clara University 87 Trinity College 90 Loyola Marymount University (67.7)