United States Colleges Ranked by Highest SAT Score

List of Colleges by SAT Score

Below is a list of the 1215 colleges in the United States with the highest SAT Score for incoming freshmen. California Institute of Technology tops the list with an average SAT Score of 1555. Alternatively, check out the ACT 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 SAT Score
	College	Average SAT Score
C	California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA	1555
M	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA	1535
H	Harvey Mudd College Claremont, CA	1525
C	University of Chicago Chicago, IL	1520
H	Harvard University Cambridge, MA	1520
W	Washington University in St Louis Saint Louis, MO	1520
Y	Yale University New Haven, CT	1515
D	Duke University Durham, NC	1510
J	Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD	1505
P	Princeton University Princeton, NJ	1505
C	Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY	1505
V	Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN	1505
R	Rice University Houston, TX	1505
O	Olin College of Engineering Needham, MA	1505
C	Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA	1500
S	Stanford University Stanford, CA	1495
N	Northwestern University Evanston, IL	1490
D	Dartmouth College Hanover, NH	1490
P	University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	1485
B	Brown University Providence, RI	1485