Wallethub Best College Ranking 2026

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Anonymous wrote:97th Percentile (Remainder)

21. Vanderbilt
22. Claremont McKenna
23. UFlorida
24. WashU
25. Wellesley
26. Washington and Lee
27. Harvey Mudd

96th Percentile

28. Pomona
29. Cornell
30. Amherst
31. UCSD
32. UCLA
33. Hamilton
34. UCB
36. Middlebury

Source?

College & University Rankings in 2026 https://share.google/mpOQQWOnjtJSLIbeD

So their overall rankings don’t add up at all with their top 5s? What a useless ranking. A bunch of useless categories like “campus experience and student experience”

Seriously, can't imagine why anyone would care whether their kid enjoys college.

Lol exactly. Just haters who can’t fathom their school not on this list so they say nonsensical things. I actually think it’s the same 1 or 2 posters who aren’t happy that keep posting

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Most legit ranking out there.

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Anonymous wrote:Most legit ranking out there.

Agreed.

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Anonymous wrote:Most legit ranking out there.

Nope. How can there be only 4 schools in the South? Didn't we recently learn that the South is becoming the center of the academic universe??

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Anonymous wrote:Most legit ranking out there.

Nope. How can there be only 4 schools in the South?

This should make a lot of posters on this board happy.

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As a point of clarification, the OP posted the university subcategory of WalletHub's general ranking of colleges and universities together.

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What is interesting about this list is that you can create your own ranking based on your priorities. For me it is outcomes -- both education and career. Others may prioritize other things, which to me are not important, such as selectivity and cost. And while campus experience is an important factor, that is so subjective, it is essentially useless in this ranking.

So it turns out that for my kid's first choice, the two most important things rank #4 and #18. That is quite reassuring.

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Anonymous wrote:Crap list. Doesnt include UVA

94th percentile. 50 out of 500

UVA is 39.

35. Emory
36. USC
37. UMichigan
38. UNC-CH
39. UVA
40. Tufts
41. NYU


52. Georgetown

58. UMDCP

64. William & Mary
65. Wake Forest

102. Virginia Tech

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lol

The top 20 are among the most unsafe schools according to this ranking.

Also the most expensive ones but no surprise there.

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Anonymous wrote:lol

The top 20 are among the most unsafe schools according to this ranking.

Also the most expensive ones but no surprise there.

lol poor thing. You are having a hard time with this aren't you.

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"UVA is 39."

UVA placed 39th in its subcategory and 50th overall.

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Who cares about schools ranked beyond the top 25.

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Anonymous wrote:Who cares about schools ranked beyond the top 25.

Or outside the top 50, like Georgetown and Maryland.

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Anonymous wrote:Makes sense but Dartmouth ranks unusually high.

Yet Cornell is missing from T20.

Cornell is ranked 25 below WashU at 23.

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https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-best-and-worst-colleges-america-10876300