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