United States Private Colleges Ranked by Highest SAT Score

List of Private Colleges by SAT Score

Below is a list of the 794 private 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.

List of United States Private Colleges Ranked by Highest SAT Score
School Average SAT Score
California Institute of Technology

Pasadena, CA

1555
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, MA

1555
Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, MD

1545
Yale University

New Haven, CT

1540
University of Chicago

Chicago, IL

1540
Dartmouth College

Hanover, NH

1540
Stanford University

Stanford, CA

1540
Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

1535
Washington University in St Louis

Saint Louis, MO

1535
Princeton University

Princeton, NJ

1535
Columbia University in the City of New York

New York, NY

1535
University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

1535
Brown University

Providence, RI

1535
Northwestern University

Evanston, IL

1530
Duke University

Durham, NC

1530
Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, PA

1530
Vanderbilt University

Nashville, TN

1530
Rice University

Houston, TX

1530