Colleges with the Highest ACT Scores in the United States

List of Colleges by ACT Score

Below is a list of the 1256 colleges in the United States with the highest ACT Score for incoming freshmen. California Institute of Technology tops the list with an average ACT Score of 35. Alternatively, check out the SAT version of these rankings.

Data is reported for the 2017/18 academic year by the U.S. Department of Education National Center for Education Statistics.

List of United States Colleges Ranked by Highest ACT Score
	College	Average ACT Score
C	California Institute of Technology	35
M	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	35
H	Harvey Mudd College	34
Y	Yale University	34
C	University of Chicago	34
N	Northwestern University	34
N	University of Notre Dame	34
J	Johns Hopkins University	34
H	Harvard University	34
C	Columbia University in the City of New York	34
D	Duke University	34
C	Carnegie Mellon University	34
V	Vanderbilt University	34
R	Rice University	34
O	Olin College of Engineering	34
C	University of California Berkeley	33
N	Northeastern University	33
W	Williams College	33
W	Washington University in St Louis	33
D	Dartmouth College	33