Colleges with the highest median SAT

Method notes

Underlying institution file: EDsmart Data processed College Scorecard extract merged to IPEDS 2023 directory for HBCU and Carnegie fields.
ROI column matches the processed college_roi_rankings series in this site build; see College Scorecard ROI methodology.
School profile links use generated slugs; not every campus has a published profile page yet—use the Scorecard site as fallback.

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Rank	Institution	State	Control	Enrollment	Primary metric	Also see
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	MA	Private nonprofit	4,535	1560	Admit 4.5%
2	University of Chicago	IL	Private nonprofit	7,569	1554	Admit 4.5%
3	Johns Hopkins University	MD	Private nonprofit	5,693	1553	Admit 6.4%
4	University of Pennsylvania	PA	Private nonprofit	10,650	1553	Admit 5.4%
5	Harvard University	MA	Private nonprofit	7,601	1553	Admit 3.6%
6	Columbia University in the City of New York	NY	Private nonprofit	8,973	1553	Admit 4.0%
7	Stanford University	CA	Private nonprofit	7,554	1553	Admit 3.6%
8	Princeton University	NJ	Private nonprofit	5,709	1553	Admit 4.6%
9	Rice University	TX	Private nonprofit	4,776	1553	Admit 8.0%
10	Vanderbilt University	TN	Private nonprofit	7,208	1549	Admit 5.9%
11	Duke University	NC	Private nonprofit	6,442	1548	Admit 5.7%
12	Carnegie Mellon University	PA	Private nonprofit	7,304	1546	Admit 11.7%
13	Brown University	RI	Private nonprofit	7,226	1546	Admit 5.4%
14	Harvey Mudd College	CA	Private nonprofit	921	1545	Admit 12.7%
15	Cornell University	NY	Private nonprofit	15,995	1535	Admit 8.8%
16	Dartmouth College	NH	Private nonprofit	4,541	1534	Admit 5.4%
17	Pomona College	CA	Private nonprofit	1,666	1534	Admit 7.1%
18	Yale University	CT	Private nonprofit	6,758	1534	Admit 3.9%
19	Swarthmore College	PA	Private nonprofit	1,613	1534	Admit 7.5%
20	Williams College	MA	Private nonprofit	2,076	1533	Admit 8.2%
21	Amherst College	MA	Private nonprofit	1,911	1533	Admit 9.0%
22	Northwestern University	IL	Private nonprofit	9,201	1533	Admit 7.7%
23	Washington University in St Louis	MO	Private nonprofit	7,857	1530	Admit 12.1%
24	Claremont McKenna College	CA	Private nonprofit	1,388	1527	Admit 9.6%
25	Wellesley College	MA	Private nonprofit	2,300	1520	Admit 14.1%
26	New York University	NY	Private nonprofit	28,663	1520	Admit 9.2%
27	Franklin W Olin College of Engineering	MA	Private nonprofit	377	1520	Admit 25.2%
28	Barnard College	NY	Private nonprofit	3,264	1520	Admit 8.8%
29	University of Notre Dame	IN	Private nonprofit	8,818	1520	Admit 11.3%
30	Bowdoin College	ME	Private nonprofit	1,873	1520	Admit 7.1%
31	Emory University	GA	Private nonprofit	7,298	1520	Admit 10.7%
32	Carleton College	MN	Private nonprofit	2,086	1517	Admit 20.4%
33	Haverford College	PA	Private nonprofit	1,430	1513	Admit 12.4%
34	Tufts University	MA	Private nonprofit	7,061	1513	Admit 11.5%
35	Case Western Reserve University	OH	Private nonprofit	6,437	1513	Admit 36.5%
36	Middlebury College	VT	Private nonprofit	2,738	1508	Admit 10.8%
37	Colgate University	NY	Private nonprofit	3,180	1508	Admit 13.9%
38	Boston College	MA	Private nonprofit	10,085	1507	Admit 16.4%
39	Hamilton College	NY	Private nonprofit	2,030	1506	Admit 13.6%
40	Colby College	ME	Private nonprofit	2,407	1501	Admit 7.1%
41	Wesleyan University	CT	Private nonprofit	3,067	1501	Admit 16.5%
42	Smith College	MA	Private nonprofit	2,544	1500	Admit 21.0%
43	Washington and Lee University	VA	Private nonprofit	1,881	1498	Admit 14.0%
44	University of Richmond	VA	Private nonprofit	2,980	1497	Admit 22.2%
45	Northeastern University	MA	Private nonprofit	17,326	1497	Admit 5.2%
46	University of Southern California	CA	Private nonprofit	20,443	1495	Admit 9.8%
47	Vassar College	NY	Private nonprofit	2,444	1494	Admit 18.6%
48	Scripps College	CA	Private nonprofit	1,113	1492	Admit 38.3%
49	University of Rochester	NY	Private nonprofit	6,331	1488	Admit 40.1%
50	Georgetown University	DC	Private nonprofit	7,569	1487	Admit 12.9%
51	Grinnell College	IA	Private nonprofit	1,729	1486	Admit 14.5%
52	Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus	GA	Public	18,785	1480	Admit 14.1%
53	Boston University	MA	Private nonprofit	18,248	1480	Admit 11.1%
54	University of Virginia-Main Campus	VA	Public	17,597	1480	Admit 16.8%
55	Wake Forest University	NC	Private nonprofit	5,485	1475	Admit 21.7%
56	University of Maryland-College Park	MD	Public	30,760	1473	Admit 44.8%
57	Rhode Island School of Design	RI	Private nonprofit	2,084	1473	Admit 18.7%
58	William & Mary	VA	Public	7,055	1473	Admit 34.1%
59	Northeastern University Oakland	CA	Private nonprofit	464	1472	Admit 16.7%
60	Davidson College	NC	Private nonprofit	1,867	1469	Admit 13.4%
61	Bates College	ME	Private nonprofit	1,760	1468	Admit 13.3%
62	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	MI	Public	34,177	1465	Admit 15.6%
63	Mount Holyoke College	MA	Private nonprofit	2,169	1463	Admit 36.0%
64	Brandeis University	MA	Private nonprofit	3,618	1462	Admit 40.5%
65	Villanova University	PA	Private nonprofit	6,938	1460	Admit 27.0%
66	Babson College	MA	Private nonprofit	2,728	1457	Admit 17.1%
67	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	NY	Private nonprofit	5,714	1456	Admit 63.5%
68	Occidental College	CA	Private nonprofit	1,877	1452	Admit 44.2%
69	Tulane University of Louisiana	LA	Private nonprofit	7,767	1448	Admit 14.0%
70	Oberlin College	OH	Private nonprofit	2,887	1447	Admit 34.2%
71	Stevens Institute of Technology	NJ	Private nonprofit	4,222	1446	Admit 47.6%
72	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	IL	Public	36,258	1440	Admit 42.4%
73	Soka University of America	CA	Private nonprofit	484	1440	Admit 43.4%
74	Simpson College	IA	Private nonprofit	1,227	1440	Admit 86.2%
75	Macalester College	MN	Private nonprofit	2,131	1440	Admit 28.5%
76	Lehigh University	PA	Private nonprofit	5,898	1440	Admit 25.9%
77	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	NC	Public	20,752	1439	Admit 15.3%
78	Reed College	OR	Private nonprofit	1,320	1437	Admit 24.6%
79	George Washington University	DC	Private nonprofit	11,182	1433	Admit 47.1%
80	Connecticut College	CT	Private nonprofit	1,937	1432	Admit 37.0%
81	Kenyon College	OH	Private nonprofit	1,732	1429	Admit 31.0%
82	Southern Methodist University	TX	Private nonprofit	7,277	1428	Admit 63.3%
83	Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology	IN	Private nonprofit	2,309	1427	Admit 76.9%
84	University of Wisconsin-Madison	WI	Public	36,902	1427	Admit 45.2%
85	Yeshiva University	NY	Private nonprofit	2,852	1426	Admit 55.6%
86	St. John's College	NM	Private nonprofit	368	1426	Admit 53.1%
87	Santa Clara University	CA	Private nonprofit	6,552	1426	Admit 48.0%
88	Lafayette College	PA	Private nonprofit	2,757	1424	Admit 31.4%
89	University of Massachusetts-Amherst	MA	Public	23,671	1423	Admit 59.7%
90	Stony Brook University	NY	Public	18,101	1419	Admit 49.0%
91	Fordham University	NY	Private nonprofit	10,512	1418	Admit 59.3%
92	Trinity University	TX	Private nonprofit	2,505	1416	Admit 25.9%
93	Trinity College	CT	Private nonprofit	2,146	1415	Admit 29.2%
94	Hillsdale College	MI	Private nonprofit	1,573	1415	Admit 20.7%
95	University of Miami	FL	Private nonprofit	12,913	1415	Admit 18.9%
96	Binghamton University	NY	Public	14,655	1415	Admit 38.6%
97	Colorado School of Mines	CO	Public	6,155	1412	Admit 60.7%
98	Rutgers University-New Brunswick	NJ	Public	37,751	1410	Admit 58.1%
99	The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art	NY	Private nonprofit	842	1410	Admit 20.7%
100	Denison University	OH	Private nonprofit	2,380	1410	Admit 17.4%