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Collegiate Water Polo Association/Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference/Northeast Water Polo Institutions Rank on TIMES/Statista America’s Best Colleges of 2026-2027

Aug 28, 2026

Collegiate Water Polo Association/Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference/Northeast Water Polo Institutions Rank on TIMES/Statista America’s Best Colleges of 2026-2027
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BRIDGEPORT, Pa. — Collegiate Water Polo Association/Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference/Northeast Water Polo Institutions are among the nation’s best institutions according to the TIMES/Statista inaugural edition of America’s Best Colleges of 2026-2027 ranking the colleges that excel at student outcomes, learning environment, and attractiveness to students.

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Among the Top 50 schools in the rankings, CWPA/MAWPC/NWPC members Stanford University (club – No. 1 ), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (varsity/club – No. 2), Princeton University (varsity – No. 4), the University of Michigan (varsity/club – No. 5), the University of Pennsylvania (club – no. 7), Columbia University (club – No. 8), Harvard University (varsity – No. 10), Yale University (club – No. 11), Cornell University (club – No. 13), the University of Virginia (club – No. 14), the University of California (club – No. 15), the University of Florida (club – No. 16), Carnegie Mellon University (club – No. 17), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (club – No. 18), the University of Notre Dame (club – No. 19), Georgetown University (club – No. 20), Leigh University (club – No. 21), Vanderbilt University (club – No. 22), Dartmouth College (club – No. 23), Georgia Institute of Technology (club – No. 24), Brown University (varsity – No. 25), Williams College (club – No. 26), the University of Chicago (club – No. 27), Rice University (club – No. 31), the University of Southern California (club – No. 32), Villanova University (club – No. 33), the University of California-Los Angles (club – No. 34), the University of California-San Diego (club – No. 35), California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo (club – No. 38), Northwestern University (club – No. 39), Duke University (club – No. 40), the University of California-Santa Barbara (club – No. 43), the University of Wisconsin-Madison (club – No. 44), Washington University in St. Louis (club – No. 46), Boston College (club – No. 48) and the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign (club – No. 50) all rank. 

 

TIME/Statista America’s Best Colleges of 2026-2027,
Rank Name Location Final Score
1 Stanford University CA 96.36
2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA 94.59
3 Harvey Mudd College CA 94.39
4 Princeton University NJ 93.5
5 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor MI 92.5
6 California Institute of Technology CA 92.48
7 University of Pennsylvania PA 91.72
8 Columbia University in the City of New York NY 91.62
9 Claremont McKenna College CA 91.21
10 Harvard University MA 91.11
11 Yale University CT 91.03
12 Babson College MA 90.38
13 Cornell University NY 90.08
14 University of Virginia-Main Campus VA 89.99
15 University of California-Berkeley CA 89.43
16 University of Florida FL 89.14
17 Carnegie Mellon University PA 88.91
18 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC 87.73
19 University of Notre Dame IN 87.43
20 Georgetown University DC 87.03
21 Lehigh University PA 86.89
22 Vanderbilt University TN 86.76
23 Dartmouth College NH 86.75
24 Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus GA 86.56
25 Brown University RI 86.07
26 Williams College MA 86.07
27 University of Chicago IL 85.88
28 Bentley University MA 85.86
29 Santa Clara University CA 85.33
30 Stevens Institute of Technology NJ 85.17
31 Rice University TX 85.09
32 University of Southern California CA 85.05
33 Villanova University PA 84.92
34 University of California-Los Angeles CA 84.59
35 University of California-San Diego CA 84.37
36 CUNY Lehman College NY 84.34
37 Davidson College NC 84.12
38 California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo CA 84.08
39 Northwestern University IL 84.02
40 Duke University NC 84.02
41 Johns Hopkins University MD 84.01
42 Berea College KY 83.88
43 University of California-Santa Barbara CA 83.86
44 University of Wisconsin-Madison WI 83.62
45 College of the Holy Cross MA 83.48
46 Washington University in St Louis MO 83.44
47 CUNY Bernard M Baruch College NY 83.26
48 Boston College MA 83.24
49 Washington and Lee University VA 83.24
50 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL 83.23
51 Fashion Institute of Technology NY 83.02
52 William & Mary VA 83.02
53 Florida State University FL 82.93
54 Brigham Young University UT 82.78
55 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University VA 82.74
56 Bucknell University PA 82.59
57 University of Connecticut CT 82.57
58 Binghamton University NY 82.55
59 Colorado School of Mines CO 82.47
60 Swarthmore College PA 82.46
61 University of Delaware DE 82.19
62 Florida International University FL 82.12
63 University of Maryland-College Park MD 81.99
64 Bowdoin College ME 81.97
65 Colgate University NY 81.65
66 Amherst College MA 81.64
67 CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice NY 81.63
68 Lafayette College PA 81.57
69 Wellesley College MA 81.52
70 University of La Verne CA 81.48
71 Citadel Military College of South Carolina SC 81.45
72 The University of Texas at Austin TX 81.44
73 Virginia Military Institute VA 81.3
74 North Carolina State University at Raleigh NC 81.02
75 Massachusetts Maritime Academy MA 80.93
76 Pomona College CA 80.87
77 Worcester Polytechnic Institute MA 80.59
78 SUNY Maritime College NY 80.56
79 Texas A & M University-College Station TX 80.37
80 Colby College ME 80.27
81 Fairfield University CT 80.14
82 Clemson University SC 80.03
83 Emory University GA 80.03
84 Purdue University-Main Campus IN 80.03
85 Molloy University NY 79.93
86 University of San Diego CA 79.39
87 University of Georgia GA 79.38
88 New York University NY 79.27
89 Middlebury College VT 79.16
90 University of California-Davis CA 78.86
91 George Washington University DC 78.65
92 Hamilton College NY 78.65
93 Maine Maritime Academy ME 78.46
94 Barnard College NY 78.36
95 New Jersey Institute of Technology NJ 78.29
96 Trinity College CT 78.22
97 University of Richmond VA 78.04
98 Yeshiva University NY 77.86
99 The College of New Jersey NJ 77.8
100 Wake Forest University NC 77.48
101 Providence College RI 77.44
102 Northeastern University MA 77.17
103 Manhattan University NY 77.1
104 Ohio Northern University OH 76.99
105 Tufts University MA 76.83
106 University of Detroit Mercy MI 76.82
107 Union College NY 76.71
108 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY 76.57
109 Boston University MA 76.47
110 University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA 76.37
111 Wesleyan University CT 76.31
112 Haverford College PA 76.27
113 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities MN 76.24
114 Cal Poly Maritime Academy CA 76.24
115 University at Buffalo NY 76.01
116 University of Washington WA 75.97
117 University of St Francis IL 75.95
118 University of California-Irvine CA 75.93
119 University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus OK 75.9
120 Fordham University NY 75.38
121 Saint Joseph’s University PA 75.33
122 Michigan State University MI 75.04
123 SUNY at Albany NY 74.73
124 Trinity University TX 74.64
125 Illinois Institute of Technology IL 74.59
126 Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology IN 74.46
127 Bryant University RI 74.4
128 Franklin and Marshall College PA 74.36
129 University of Rhode Island RI 74.03
130 Pepperdine University CA 74
131 New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology NM 73.93
132 SUNY Oneonta NY 73.83
133 University of Rochester NY 73.62
134 Stony Brook University NY 73.57
135 San Diego State University CA 73.53
136 Linfield University OR 73.34
137 University of Illinois Chicago IL 73.24
138 Case Western Reserve University OH 73.19
139 Syracuse University NY 73.09
140 University of South Florida FL 72.99
141 William Jewell College MO 72.98
142 St. Joseph’s University-New York NY 72.91
143 Loyola University Maryland MD 72.78
144 Gonzaga University WA 72.72
145 Scripps College CA 72.51
146 Gettysburg College PA 72.45
147 University of Missouri-Columbia MO 72.3
148 Southern Methodist University TX 72.23
149 Montclair State University NJ 72.08
150 University of North Florida FL 72.02
151 Carleton College MN 71.99
152 Auburn University AL 71.99
153 James Madison University VA 71.93
154 Rockhurst University MO 71.71
155 CUNY Brooklyn College NY 71.66
156 Quinnipiac University CT 71.63
157 Rutgers University NJ 71.58
158 Fresno Pacific University CA 71.58
159 University of Mount Saint Vincent NY 71.51
160 Illinois Wesleyan University IL 71.47
161 SUNY College at Geneseo NY 71.41
162 CUNY City College NY 71.23
163 American University DC 71.15
164 Indiana University-Bloomington IN 71.03
165 University of Miami FL 71.02
166 Marist University NY 70.97
167 University of Utah UT 70.93
168 Towson University MD 70.87
169 University of Michigan-Dearborn MI 70.77
170 Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College LA 70.75
171 Bradley University IL 70.67
172 Mount Saint Mary’s University CA 70.55
173 La Salle University PA 70.52
174 Milwaukee School of Engineering WI 70.51
175 Bates College ME 70.38
176 University of Redlands CA 70.34
177 Oklahoma State University-Main Campus OK 70.32
178 Immaculata University PA 70.26
179 State University of New York at New Paltz NY 70.25
180 California State University-Long Beach CA 70.17
181 National University CA 70.15
182 Arizona State University AZ 70.14
183 Wabash College IN 70.04
184 Holy Family University PA 69.96
185 MCPHS University MA 69.94
186 Marquette University WI 69.92
187 Thomas Jefferson University PA 69.92
188 California State University-Stanislaus CA 69.91
189 Portland State University OR 69.82
190 Drake University IA 69.8
191 St. John Fisher University NY 69.78
192 University of Dayton OH 69.76
193 Elon University NC 69.76
194 Dickinson College PA 69.74
195 University of Central Florida FL 69.66
196 Christian Brothers University TN 69.65
197 Texas Christian University TX 69.5
198 Muhlenberg College PA 69.46
199 Russell Sage College NY 69.33
200 Loyola Marymount University CA 69.32
201 The Ohio State University OH 69.25
202 SUNY Polytechnic Institute NY 69.25
203 University of Baltimore MD 69.23
204 Butler University IN 69.13
205 Michigan Technological University MI 69.11
206 Dominican University IL 68.96
207 Centre College KY 68.83
208 Clarkson University NY 68.82
209 California State University-Dominguez Hills CA 68.74
210 University of St. Thomas TX 68.73
211 St. Francis College NY 68.72
212 SUNY at Plattsburgh NY 68.67
213 University of Portland OR 68.57
214 Washington State University WA 68.52
215 Grinnell College IA 68.51
216 University of South Carolina-Columbia SC 68.49
217 Hobart William Smith Colleges NY 68.47
218 Saint Peter’s University NJ 68.44
219 California State University-Northridge CA 68.34
220 Saint Xavier University IL 68.33
221 Brigham Young University-Hawaii HI 68.27
222 Connecticut College CT 68.19
223 University of Missouri-St Louis MO 68.1
224 The University of Tennessee-Knoxville TN 68.09
225 Creighton University NE 67.95
226 Saint Mary’s College of California CA 67.95
227 Brandeis University MA 67.95
228 University of Nevada-Reno NV 67.94
229 University of Iowa IA 67.89
230 University of Hawaii at Hilo HI 67.88
231 Texas A & M International University TX 67.88
232 Sonoma State University CA 67.86
233 The University of Alabama AL 67.79
234 Regis University CO 67.78
235 Drexel University PA 67.77
236 Governors State University IL 67.74
237 Siena University NY 67.7
238 University of San Francisco CA 67.68
239 University of St Thomas MN 67.65
240 University of Missouri-Kansas City MO 67.61
241 University of Scranton PA 67.59
242 DePauw University IN 67.54
243 California State University-Chico CA 67.35
244 D’Youville University NY 67.32
245 Ramapo College of New Jersey NJ 67.29
246 Albion College MI 67.27
247 CUNY Hunter College NY 67.07
248 The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art NY 67.05
249 California State University-Los Angeles CA 67.05
250 Adelphi University NY 66.96
251 Bay Path University MA 66.88
252 Spelman College GA 66.81
253 Touro University NY 66.71
254 St Lawrence University NY 66.7
255 University of Colorado Boulder CO 66.66
256 Kettering University MI 66.64
257 The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley TX 66.63
258 Washington & Jefferson College PA 66.59
259 Wofford College SC 66.57
260 Duquesne University PA 66.52
261 Stonehill College MA 66.5
262 Missouri University of Science and Technology MO 66.5
263 Saint John’s University MN 66.49
264 Chaminade University of Honolulu HI 66.41
265 State University of New York at Oswego NY 66.36
266 Vassar College NY 66.3
267 Iowa State University IA 66.3
268 Pacific Lutheran University WA 66.29
269 California State University-Channel Islands CA 66.23
270 Rochester Institute of Technology NY 66.07
271 Le Moyne College NY 65.94
272 Northern Illinois University IL 65.94
273 Saint Louis University MO 65.93
274 Texas Tech University TX 65.89
275 Temple University PA 65.86
276 University of Denver CO 65.83
277 University of Arkansas AR 65.67
278 Waynesburg University PA 65.56
279 Illinois State University IL 65.42
280 California State University-San Bernardino CA 65.42
281 Occidental College CA 65.38
282 Canisius University NY 65.12
283 University of Arizona AZ 65.04
284 Howard University DC 64.95
285 Misericordia University PA 64.91
286 Wayne State University MI 64.9
287 California State Polytechnic University-Pomona CA 64.87
288 Stockton University NJ 64.79
289 Farmingdale State College NY 64.76
290 Rowan University NJ 64.74
291 Utica University NY 64.7
292 University of Tulsa OK 64.7
293 Rhodes College TN 64.69
294 Florida Atlantic University FL 64.64
295 Furman University SC 64.54
296 University of Vermont VT 64.46
297 Saint Anselm College NH 64.44
298 Drew University NJ 64.39
299 The Catholic University of America DC 64.37
300 Maryville University of Saint Louis MO 64.34
301 Indiana University-Indianapolis IN 64.3
302 University of Pittsburgh PA 64.2
303 Hampden-Sydney College VA 64.19
304 Simmons University MA 64.11
305 Monmouth University NJ 64.09
306 Saint Martin’s University WA 64.08
307 University of California-Merced CA 64.06
308 Mississippi University for Women MS 64
309 The University of Texas at Arlington TX 63.94
310 California Lutheran University CA 63.9
311 University of Louisville KY 63.78
312 Metropolitan State University MN 63.76
313 Denison University OH 63.7
314 University of Alabama in Huntsville AL 63.65
315 Salisbury University MD 63.65
316 Kenyon College OH 63.63
317 The University of the South TN 63.62
318 Bryn Mawr College PA 63.62
319 Agnes Scott College GA 63.61
320 Kalamazoo College MI 63.53
321 California State University-Fullerton CA 63.53
322 St. Mary’s College of Maryland MD 63.5
323 Mount Saint Mary College NY 63.5
324 Mercy University NY 63.49
325 University of Kansas KS 63.48
326 West Chester University of Pennsylvania PA 63.41
327 Winston-Salem State University NC 63.4
328 SUNY Cortland NY 63.38
329 Saint Francis University PA 63.36
330 Cedar Crest College PA 63.17
331 University of Illinois Springfield IL 63.13
332 Azusa Pacific University CA 63.12
333 Sacred Heart University CT 63.1
334 St Olaf College MN 63.06
335 California State University-Fresno CA 63.02
336 Oakland University MI 62.96
337 University of Houston-Clear Lake TX 62.94
338 East Carolina University NC 62.85
339 Whitman College WA 62.76
340 Seton Hall University NJ 62.73
341 North Park University IL 62.59
342 University of New Hampshire NH 62.45
343 Wagner College NY 62.42
344 Marian University IN 62.32
345 Moravian University PA 62.22
346 Pitzer College CA 62.09
347 Saint Joseph’s College of Maine ME 62.06
348 Lewis University IL 62.03
349 Skidmore College NY 62
350 George Mason University VA 61.98
351 Tulane University of Louisiana LA 61.83
352 Widener University PA 61.78
353 Macalester College MN 61.72
354 California State University-Bakersfield CA 61.71
355 Barry University FL 61.71
356 University of Oregon OR 61.62
357 Elizabethtown College PA 61.58
358 Clayton State University GA 61.52
359 University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth MA 61.47
360 Trinity Washington University DC 61.43
361 Wentworth Institute of Technology MA 61.33
362 University of Massachusetts-Lowell MA 61.32
363 Ball State University IN 61.26
364 Coppin State University MD 61.24
365 University of Alabama at Birmingham AL 61.22
366 South Dakota School of Mines and Technology SD 61.1
367 Lake Forest College IL 61.07
368 Jacksonville University FL 61.07
369 Truman State University MO 61.04
370 Dominican University of California CA 61.01
371 St. John’s University-New York NY 60.99
372 University of Arkansas at Little Rock AR 60.96
373 SUNY Brockport NY 60.93
374 University of North Texas TX 60.89
375 Chapman University CA 60.88
376 Wheaton College IL 60.85
377 University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus CO 60.77
378 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University FL 60.72
379 Kean University NJ 60.63
380 Colorado College CO 60.48
381 Allegheny College PA 60.48
382 William Paterson University of New Jersey NJ 60.45
383 West Virginia University WV 60.38
384 Daemen University NY 60.38
385 University of North Carolina at Greensboro NC 60.36
386 California State University-Monterey Bay CA 60.31
387 University of Kentucky KY 60.3
388 University of California-Santa Cruz CA 60.26
389 Elmhurst University IL 60.22
390 Saint Mary’s College IN 60.21
391 Western Connecticut State University CT 60.1
392 The University of Texas at Tyler TX 60.08
393 Loyola University Chicago IL 59.98
394 Mount Holyoke College MA 59.79
395 Menlo College CA 59.74
396 California State University-San Marcos CA 59.72
397 The University of Texas Permian Basin TX 59.7
398 York College of Pennsylvania PA 59.67
399 Oregon Institute of Technology OR 59.65
400 Eastern Illinois University IL 59.64
401 Madonna University MI 59.62
402 DePaul University IL 59.61
403 Cumberland University TN 59.58
404 Walsh University OH 59.56
405 Westminster University UT 59.54
406 Sam Houston State University TX 59.48
407 Hampton University VA 59.4
408 Albright College PA 59.33
409 The College of Saint Scholastica MN 59.29
410 Augustana College IL 59.18
411 Rhode Island College RI 59.1
412 University of North Carolina Wilmington NC 59.06
413 Central Washington University WA 59.05
414 Everglades University FL 59.05
415 University of North Dakota ND 58.98
416 University of Mary Washington VA 58.93
417 University of Virginia’s College at Wise VA 58.86
418 Midwestern State University TX 58.79
419 University of Mississippi MS 58.75
420 University of Wisconsin-La Crosse WI 58.69
421 Fairleigh Dickinson University NJ 58.68
422 Mississippi State University MS 58.66
423 Judson University IL 58.63
424 John Carroll University OH 58.63
425 California State University-Sacramento CA 58.57
426 Dunwoody College of Technology MN 58.55
427 Ursinus College PA 58.5
428 Valparaiso University IN 58.5
429 University of Idaho ID 58.4
430 California Baptist University CA 58.35
431 Oregon State University OR 58.35
432 Washington College MD 58.28
433 Marywood University PA 58.27
434 University of North Carolina at Charlotte NC 58.25
435 North Dakota State University-Main Campus ND 58.25
436 Smith College MA 58.2
437 Salve Regina University RI 58.12
438 University of Wyoming WY 57.99
439 Roberts Wesleyan University NY 57.97
440 Pacific Union College CA 57.95
441 Southern Illinois University-Carbondale IL 57.94
442 CUNY York College NY 57.9
443 Saint Vincent College PA 57.86
444 University of Massachusetts-Boston MA 57.76
445 Aurora University IL 57.65
446 Our Lady of the Lake University TX 57.59
447 Avila University MO 57.53
448 Southern Connecticut State University CT 57.51
449 Saint Edward’s University TX 57.48
450 Texas State University TX 57.48
451 Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion IN 57.43
452 University of Mary ND 57.42
453 Texas Woman’s University TX 57.41
454 Gustavus Adolphus College MN 57.38
455 Bellarmine University KY 57.38
456 Jacksonville State University AL 57.32
457 Grand Valley State University MI 57.3
458 CUNY Queens College NY 57.28
459 Presbyterian College SC 57.24
460 St Catherine University MN 57.19
461 King University TN 57.19
462 The University of Texas at El Paso TX 57.17
463 Northeastern Illinois University IL 57.07
464 University of Minnesota-Morris MN 57.04
465 Iona University NY 57.02
466 Bethel University MN 57.01
467 University of Nebraska-Lincoln NE 56.98
468 Seattle University WA 56.98
469 Concordia University-Saint Paul MN 56.96
470 Saint Ambrose University IA 56.93
471 Gwynedd Mercy University PA 56.92
472 John Brown University AR 56.91
473 Olivet Nazarene University IL 56.9
474 Louisiana State University-Shreveport LA 56.86
475 SUNY College of Technology at Alfred NY 56.84
476 Western New England University MA 56.81
477 Wilkes University PA 56.78
478 Niagara University NY 56.77
479 University of Houston TX 56.76
480 Georgia Southwestern State University GA 56.75
481 SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry NY 56.72
482 Valdosta State University GA 56.66
483 College of Our Lady of the Elms MA 56.66
484 Hamline University MN 56.66
485 Northeastern State University OK 56.65
486 Oklahoma City University OK 56.63
487 Clark University MA 56.61
488 Mount St. Mary’s University MD 56.6
489 SUNY Old Westbury NY 56.55
490 Lipscomb University TN 56.5
491 Texas A&M University-Kingsville TX 56.47
492 Wheaton College (Massachusetts) MA 56.4
493 Stevenson University MD 56.39
494 Felician University NJ 56.19
495 Keystone College PA 56.17
496 Salem State University MA 56.15
497 Central Connecticut State University CT 56.11
498 Northwood University MI 56.1
499 East Texas A&M University TX 56.07
500 Robert Morris University PA 56.02
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