California Colleges Ranked by Highest SAT Score

List of Colleges by SAT Score

Below is a list of the 76 colleges in California 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 California Colleges Ranked by Highest SAT Score
	College	Average SAT Score
C	California Institute of Technology	1555
H	Harvey Mudd College	1525
S	Stanford University	1495
P	Pomona College	1470
S	University of Southern California	1440
C	University of California Berkeley	1425
C	Claremont McKenna College	1425
C	University of California Los Angeles	1405
S	Scripps College	1390
C	University of California San Diego	1365
O	Occidental College	1360
S	Santa Clara University	1355
C	University of California Santa Barbara	1345
C	California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo	1335
P	Pepperdine University	1320
T	Thomas Aquinas College	1310
C	University of California Irvine	1300
L	Loyola Marymount University	1300
C	University of California Santa Cruz	1295
S	Soka University of America	1295