Colleges with the Highest SAT Scores in the United States

List of Colleges by SAT Score

Below is a list of the 1220 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 1570. 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	1570
R	Rice University	1555
C	University of Chicago	1550
M	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	1550
H	Harvey Mudd College	1545
Y	Yale University	1545
H	Harvard University	1545
W	Washington University in St Louis	1545
J	Johns Hopkins University	1535
O	Olin College of Engineering	1535
P	Princeton University	1530
V	Vanderbilt University	1530
D	Dartmouth College	1525
C	Carnegie Mellon University	1525
N	Northwestern University	1520
C	Columbia University in the City of New York	1520
P	University of Pennsylvania	1520
W	Williams College	1515
B	Brown University	1515
A	Amherst College	1510