USNWR Rankings

U.S. News and World Report Rankings*

This report is included for historical information only. It does not imply that Wellesley College approves of the methodology used by U.S. News and World Report for ranking Colleges.

Institution 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Women's Colleges
Wellesley College 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 6 6
Barnard College 29 27 26 30 27 30 26 33 28
Bryn Mawr College 21 21 20 24 23 25 30 25 26
Mount Holyoke 24 23 24 28 27 25 26 29 32
Smith College 13 19 19 17 18 18 14 19 18
Other Colleges
Amherst College 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 2
Bowdoin College 7 6 7 7 6 6 6 6 6
Carleton College 5 5 6 5 8 8 8 6 8
Colby College 19 20 20 22 23 22 23 21 18
Grinnell College 16 15 14 11 14 14 18 19 22
Haverford College 9 8 9 10 10 10 9 10 9
Middlebury College 11 8 5 5 5 4 4 5 4
Oberlin College 23 23 22 20 20 22 23 24 26
Pomona College 5 6 7 7 6 6 6 4 4
Swarthmore College 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
Trinity College 24 25 30 24 33 36 36 37 38
Vassar College 12 13 12 11 11 11 12 14 10
Wesleyan University 9 12 10 11 13 13 12 12 17
Williams College 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

 

These schools are generally comparable to Wellesley.

*Data for each year appear in August of that year, but are published as the edition for the next year, e.g., 2012 data are published in August of 2012 as the 2013 edition of the U.S. News and World Report rankings.