United States Colleges Ranked by Highest ACT Score

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 Pasadena, CA	35
M	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA	35
H	Harvey Mudd College Claremont, CA	34
Y	Yale University New Haven, CT	34
C	University of Chicago Chicago, IL	34
N	Northwestern University Evanston, IL	34
N	University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN	34
J	Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD	34
H	Harvard University Cambridge, MA	34
C	Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY	34
D	Duke University Durham, NC	34
C	Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA	34
V	Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN	34
R	Rice University Houston, TX	34
O	Olin College of Engineering Needham, MA	34
C	University of California Berkeley Berkeley, CA	33
N	Northeastern University Boston, MA	33
W	Williams College Williamstown, MA	33
W	Washington University in St Louis Saint Louis, MO	33
D	Dartmouth College Hanover, NH	33