America's best colleges 2026-2027, per TIME. 1. Stanford University 2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3. Harvey Mudd College 4. Princeton University 5. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 6. California Institute of Technology 7. University of Pennsylvania 8. Columbia University in the City of New York 9. Claremont McKenna College 10. Harvard University 11. Yale University 12. Babson College 13. Cornell University 14. University of Virginia-Main Campus 15. University of California-Berkeley 16. University of Florida 17. Carnegie Mellon University 18. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 19. University of Notre Dame 20. Georgetown University 21. Lehigh University 22. Vanderbilt University 23. Dartmouth College 24. Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus 25. Brown University 26. Williams College 27. University of Chicago 28. Bentley University 29. Santa Clara University 30. Stevens Institute of Technology 31. Rice University 32. University of Southern California 33. Villanova University 34. University of California-Los Angeles 35. University of California-San Diego 36. CUNY Lehman College 37. Davidson College 38. California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo 39. Northwestern University 40. Duke University 41. Johns Hopkins University 42. Berea College 43. University of California-Santa Barbara 44. University of Wisconsin-Madison 45. College of the Holy Cross 46. Washington University in St Louis 47. CUNY Bernard M Baruch College 48. Boston College 49. Washington and Lee University 50. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 51. Fashion Institute of Technology 52. William & Mary 53. Florida State University 54. Brigham Young University 55. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 56. Bucknell University 57. University of Connecticut 58. Binghamton University 59. Colorado School of Mines 60. Swarthmore College 61. University of Delaware 62. Florida International University 63. University of Maryland-College Park 64. Bowdoin College 65. Colgate University 66. Amherst College 67. CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice 68. Lafayette College 69. Wellesley College 70. University of La Verne 71. Citadel Military College of South Carolina 72. The University of Texas at Austin 73. Virginia Military Institute 74. North Carolina State University at Raleigh 75. Massachusetts Maritime Academy 76. Pomona College 77. Worcester Polytechnic Institute 78. SUNY Maritime College 79. Texas A & M University-College Station 80. Colby College 81. Fairfield University 82. Clemson University 83. Emory University 84. Purdue University-Main Campus 85. Molloy University 86. University of San Diego 87. University of Georgia 88. New York University 89. Middlebury College 90. University of California-Davis 91. George Washington University 92. Hamilton College 93. Maine Maritime Academy 94. Barnard College 95. New Jersey Institute of Technology 96. Trinity College 97. University of Richmond 98. Yeshiva University 99. The College of New Jersey 100. Wake Forest University