Academic Ranking of the World's Top Universities

[ADLER]

73 Division 1 Football schools are included in the World's Top 500 Academic Institutions.

Congratulations to the student-athletes that will accept that kind of rigorous academic challenge. 

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

2    Stanford University
5    University of California, Berkeley
11    University of California, Los Angeles
14    University of Washington
25    Northwestern University
26    Duke University
27    University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
28    University of Wisconsin - Madison
30    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
38    University of Colorado at Boulder
40    The University of Texas at Austin
41    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
50    Vanderbilt University
51    University of Maryland, College Park
60    University of Southern California
70    Purdue University - West Lafayette
70    Rice University
74    Pennsylvania State University - University Park
79    Georgia Institute of Technology
86    University of Florida
90    University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Campus
94    The Ohio State University - Columbus
101-150    Arizona State University
101-150    Indiana University Bloomington
101-150    Michigan State University
101-150    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick
101-150    University of Arizona
101-150    University of Utah
151-200    North Carolina State University - Raleigh
151-200    Oregon State University
151-200    Texas A&M University
151-200    University of Iowa
151-200    University of Massachusetts Amherst
151-200    University of Virginia
201-300    Colorado State University
201-300    Florida State University
201-300    Iowa State University
201-300    The University of Georgia
201-300    University of Alabama at Birmingham
201-300    University of Hawaii at Manoa
201-300    University of Houston
201-300    University of Kansas
201-300    University of Miami
201-300    University of Missouri - Columbia
201-300    University of Nebraska - Lincoln
201-300    University of Notre Dame
201-300    University of South Florida
201-300    University of Tennessee - Knoxville
201-300    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
301-400    Boston College
301-400    Louisiana State University - Baton Rouge
301-400    Temple University
301-400    The University of New Mexico - Albuquerque
301-400    University at Buffalo, the State University of New York
301-400    University of Central Florida
301-400    University of Cincinnati
301-400    University of Connecticut
301-400    University of Kentucky
301-400    University of North Texas
301-400    University of Oregon
301-400    University of South Carolina - Columbia
301-400    Washington State University
401-500    Brigham Young University
401-500    Florida International University
401-500    Kansas State University
401-500    Kent State University
401-500    Mississippi State University
401-500    Oklahoma State University
401-500    Texas Tech University
401-500    University of Oklahoma - Norman
401-500    University of Wyoming
401-500    Utah State University
401-500    West Virginia University

And the rest....Numbers 500 - 1000

It's impressive that the Academic Ranking is actually based on actual Academic Performance Criteria and not Pretty School Colors, Greek Life, and Flowers on Campus like the useless rankings released by US News

[emmitt01]

Did I miss the academic juggernaut known as SMU?

[letsgiveacheer]

I really wish these lists would go away. Where is Harvard? Princeton? Yale? 501, 502 and 503 respectively?

[oldguystudent]

Just now, letsgiveacheer said:

I really wish these lists would go away. Where is Harvard? Princeton? Yale? 501, 502 and 503 respectively?

I'm assuming when OP said Division 1 football that he meant FBS. 

[UNT 90 Grad]

8 minutes ago, emmitt01 said:

Did I miss the academic juggernaut known as SMU?

You have to click on the link.  They are 701 - 800.

 

I have to question this list a bit, primarily because they list Ohio State as "The Ohio State University".

[Christopher Walker]

22 minutes ago, emmitt01 said:

Did I miss the academic juggernaut known as SMU?

701-800

Southern Methodist University

11.4

😎

[ADLER]

16 minutes ago, letsgiveacheer said:

I really wish these lists would go away. Where is Harvard? Princeton? Yale? 501, 502 and 503 respectively?

The Ivy League schools are all near the top of the list on the web site, just not on this reduced list of the schools that Play D1 football.

[EagleMBA]

19 minutes ago, UNT 90 Grad said:

You have to click on the link.  They are 701 - 800.

 

I have to question this list a bit, primarily because they list Ohio State as "The Ohio State University".

As far as I know, that IS their actual name. It just gets truncated for the unwashed masses.

[meaniegreenie]

1 hour ago, UNT 90 Grad said:

You have to click on the link.  They are 701 - 800.

 

I have to question this list a bit, primarily because they list Ohio State as "The Ohio State University".

It's their official name.

Same reason it's "The University of Texas at Austin", which by the way is why we AREN"T "The University of North Texas"