Universities ranked by average IQ
The Ivy League is notorious for its rigorous admissions requirements and challenging programs, but are its students really the smartest? Find out how universities rank by average IQ and which is the actual top contender!
Rank | University | Avg IQ |
---|---|---|
1 | Caltech | 145 |
2 | MIT | 144 |
3 | Olin College | 143 |
4 | Rice | 143 |
5 | Vanderbilt | 143 |
6 | HMC | 143 |
7 | JHU | 143 |
8 | Chicago | 143 |
9 | Columbia | 143 |
10 | Northwestern | 143 |
11 | Stanford | 143 |
12 | Yale | 142 |
13 | CMU | 142 |
14 | Harvard | 142 |
15 | UPenn | 142 |
16 | Washington University in St. Louis | 142 |
17 | Pomona | 142 |
18 | Duke | 142 |
19 | Brown | 142 |
20 | Cornell | 142 |
21 | Princeton | 142 |
22 | Williams | 142 |
23 | NYU | 141 |
24 | Dartmouth | 141 |
25 | Tufts | 141 |
26 | Northeastern University | 141 |
27 | Swarthmore College | 141 |
28 | Notre Dame | 140 |
29 | Emory | 140 |
30 | Georgetown | 140 |
31 | USC | 140 |
32 | Boston College | 140 |
33 | Claremont McKenna College | 140 |
34 | Vassar | 140 |
35 | Wellesley | 140 |
36 | UCLA | 139 |
37 | University of Virginia | 139 |
38 | Middlebury | 139 |
39 | University of Michigan | 139 |
40 | Georgia Tech | 139 |
41 | Pitzer | 138 |
42 | Scripps | 138 |
43 | Rochester | 138 |
44 | Berkeley | 138 |
45 | Boston University | 138 |
46 | William & Mary | 138 |
47 | RPI | 138 |
48 | Tulane | 138 |
49 | UIUC | 137 |
50 | UW Madison | 137 |
51 | Wake Forest | 137 |
52 | Bowdoin | 136 |
53 | UNC Chapel Hill | 136 |
54 | Villanova | 136 |
55 | Lehigh | 135 |
56 | Trinity | 135 |
57 | GWU | 135 |
58 | SUNY Binghamton | 134 |
59 | Stony Brook | 134 |
60 | UF | 134 |
61 | The University of Miami | 133 |
62 | UCSD | 133 |
63 | UT Austin | 133 |
64 | AU | 132 |
65 | Rutgers | 132 |
66 | UGA | 132 |
67 | UMass Amherst | |
68 | Pitt | 132 |
69 | UCSB | 132 |
70 | OSU | 131 |
71 | Pepperdine | 131 |
72 | UW | 131 |
73 | LMU | 131 |
74 | UC Irvine | 130 |
75 | BYU | 130 |
76 | Cal Poly | 130 |
77 | UConn | 130 |
78 | UVM | 130 |
79 | Chapman | 129 |
80 | Drexel | 129 |
81 | Syracuse | 129 |
82 | Texas A&M | 129 |
83 | Virginia Tech | 129 |
84 | Penn State | 128 |
85 | University of San Francisco | 127 |
86 | UT Dallas | 127 |
87 | CU Boulder | 127 |
88 | IU Bloomington | 126 |
89 | Miami University | 126 |
90 | Gonzaga University | 125 |
91 | UC Davis | 125 |
92 | Baylor | 125 |
93 | University of Portland | 125 |
94 | UC Santa Cruz | 125 |
95 | University of Arizona | 125 |
96 | University of Cincinnati | 125 |
97 | TCU | 124 |
98 | University of Iowa | 124 |
99 | Seattle University | 124 |
100 | Temple University | 124 |
101 | Pace University | 123 |
102 | University of Alabama | 123 |
103 | Michigan State University | 122 |
104 | Montana State University – Bozeman | 121 |
105 | Oregon State University – Corvallis | 121 |
106 | UC Riverside | 119 |
107 | Sacred Heart University | 119 |
108 | Washington State University – Pullman | 116 |