Colleges with the Highest ACT Scores in the United States

List of Colleges by ACT Score

Below is a list of the 1278 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 34. 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	34
H	Harvey Mudd College	34
J	Johns Hopkins University	34
M	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	34
R	Rice University	34
O	Olin College of Engineering	34
Y	Yale University	33
C	University of Chicago	33
N	Northwestern University	33
N	University of Notre Dame	33
A	Amherst College	33
H	Harvard University	33
N	Northeastern University	33
W	Williams College	33
W	Washington University in St Louis	33
P	Princeton University	33
D	Duke University	33
C	Carnegie Mellon University	33
P	University of Pennsylvania	33
B	Brown University	33