| Sortable Rankings | SPECIAL REPORT: College Rankings, 2015

1. Rice University

2. Pomona College

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3. California Institute of Technology

4. Stanford University

5. The Colorado College

6. Claremont McKenna College

7. Whitman College

8. Thomas Aquinas College

9. Brigham Young University

10. Scripps College

11. University of California, Berkeley

12. Harvey Mudd College

13. University of California, Los Angeles

14. Pitzer College

15. University of Southern California

16. New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

17. Occidental College

18. Gonzaga University

19. Trinity University

20. Santa Clara University

21. University of Washington

22. University of California, Santa Barbara

23. Whitworth University

24. Southwestern University

25. The University of Texas at Dallas

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