Niche Announces 2026 Best Colleges Rankings

 

See the Top 25 schools below:

Rank College Name State
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
2 Yale University CT
3 Stanford University CA
4 Harvard University MA
5 Dartmouth College NH
6 Columbia University NY
7 Vanderbilt University TN
8 Princeton University NJ
9 California Institute of Technology CA
10 Rice University TX
11 Brown University RI
12 University of Pennsylvania PA
13 Washington University in St. Louis MO
14 Duke University NC
15 Carnegie Mellon University PA
16 Harvey Mudd College CA
17 Georgetown University DC
18 University of Chicago IL
19 University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI
20 University of California Los Angeles CA
21 Cornell University NY
22 Northwestern University IL
23 Claremont McKenna College CA
24 Johns Hopkins University MD
25 University of Notre Dame IN

 

https://thehill.com/homenews/5462108-these-are-the-best-colleges-in-the-us-for-2026-report-finds/