NCAA schools, ranked 64 ways
Rankings built for athletes, not for magazines: the money behind a program, coach pay, admissions, what a family really pays, campus life and safety across the 0 schools on the site — with the method under each one. Nothing here is an opinion score.
Every ranking
Athletics money
What departments take in and spend, what coaches earn, where the scholarship dollars go.
- Biggest athletic departments
- Athletics revenue
- Spending per athlete
- Highest-paid head coaches, men's teams
- Highest-paid head coaches, women's teams
- Assistant-coach pay, men's teams
- Assistant-coach pay, women's teams
- Most athletic scholarship money
- Athletic aid per athlete, women's teams
- Athletic aid per athlete, men's teams
- Biggest recruiting budgets
- Women's share of athletic aid
Athletic departments
How big the athletic side of a school is, and who runs it.
Academics & admissions
Selectivity, scores, graduation, retention and class size.
Best for a major
Where a field is the school's centre of gravity: share of bachelor's degrees by discipline.
- Best for business
- Best for health professions & nursing
- Best for engineering
- Best for computer & information sciences
- Best for biological sciences
- Best for psychology
- Best for social sciences
- Best for education
- Best for communication & journalism
- Best for visual & performing arts
- Best for kinesiology, parks & recreation
- Best for criminal justice & protective services
- Best for physical sciences
- Best for mathematics & statistics
- Best for agriculture
- Best for english
- Best for history
- Best for public administration & social work
- Best for architecture
Cost & value
What families actually pay, and how far the sticker is from the truth.
Campus & place
Size, who comes from where, how mixed the student body is, how alone the campus stands.
Campus safety
Campus offence rates, three years averaged, on campuses big enough to compare.
Trivia
The lists people argue about.
- Longest-standing NCAA members
- Most common team namesEagles, Tigers, Bulldogs…
- Conferences by athletics spendingthe richest leagues
- States with the most NCAA schoolsand the most teams
Programs, by sport
Team-level rankings for each sport: budgets, revenue, spend per player, APR, roster room, staff size, net price and selectivity — by division.