Top 500 Ranked Public State Universities

How do we rank these schools? Learn more about our college ranking system.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists. To find information about a school not listed below, try our site search at the bottom of this page.

Top 500 Ranked Public State Universities

Rank			Public State Universities
2020	2015	School Name	2020	2015
1 ↑	2	United States Coast Guard Academy	98.90	98.07 (↑0.9%)
2 ↑	3	College of William and Mary	97.89	No Change
3 ↓	1	United States Naval Academy	97.52	98.72 (↓1.2%)
4 ↑	19	United States Merchant Marine Academy	97.30	95.00 (↑2.4%)
5 ↑	17	United States Military Academy	96.76	95.12 (↑1.7%)
6 ↑	8	University of Georgia	96.13	No Change
7 ↑	18	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus	96.12	95.11 (↑1.1%)
8 ↓	4	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	96.10	96.43 (↓0.3%)
9 ↑	16	North Carolina State University at Raleigh	96.08	95.29 (↑0.8%)
10 ↓	9	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	95.90	No Change
11	11	Clemson University	95.82	No Change
12 ↑	13	University of Virginia-Main Campus	95.73	95.45 (↑0.3%)
13 ↓	10	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	95.67	95.84 (↓0.2%)
14 ↓	7	The University of Texas at Austin	95.63	96.18 (↓0.6%)
15 ↓	6	Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus	95.09	96.22 (↓1.2%)
16 ↓	12	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	95.02	95.48 (↓0.5%)
17 ↑	25	University of Florida	95.00	94.13 (↑0.9%)
18 ↑	28	University of Massachusetts-Amherst	94.72	94.01 (↑0.8%)
19 ↑	38	University of North Carolina School of the Arts	94.70	92.96 (↑1.9%)
20 ↓	15	University of Delaware	94.68	95.32 (↓0.7%)

Citing or Copying this material

You may copy and redistribute this list, both commercially and non-commercialy, so long as it is passed along unchanged, with credit to StateUniversity.com (either in the form of a hyperlink or a printed URL).
For more information, please see the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License at the Creative Commons website.

College Rankings