The 50 smartest colleges in America

50. Brandeis University — Average SAT: 1369

49. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute — Average SAT: 1372

48. College of William and Mary — Average SAT: 1373

47. Case Western Reserve University — Average SAT: 1375

46. Middlebury College — Average SAT: 1379

43. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor — Average SAT: 1380

43. Boston College — Average SAT: 1380

43. University of Southern California — Average SAT: 1380

42. University of California-Berkeley Average SAT score: 1382

41. Reed College — Average SAT: 1383

40. Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art Average — SAT score: 1388

39. Wellesley College — Average SAT: 1390

38. Hamilton College — Average SAT: 1393

37. Washington and Lee University — Average SAT: 1395

36. Grinnell College — Average SAT: 1398

35. Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus — Average SAT: 1400

34. Vassar College — Average SAT: 1403

33. Carleton College — Average SAT: 1408

32. Georgetown University — Average SAT: 1414

31. Claremont McKenna College — Average SAT: 1419

29. Webb Institute — Average SAT: 1420

29. Northeastern University — Average SAT: 1420

27. Haverford College — Average SAT: 1422

27. Cornell University — Average SAT score: 1422

26. Tufts University — Average SAT: 1423

25. Swarthmore College — Average SAT: 1433

24. Brown University — Average SAT: 1435

23. Carnegie Mellon University — Average SAT: 1436

21. Amherst College — Average SAT: 1439

21. Johns Hopkins University — Average SAT: 1439

20. Dartmouth College — Average SAT: 1444

19. University of Notre Dame — Average SAT: 1450

17. University of Pennsylvania — Average SAT: 1452

17. Williams College — Average SAT: 1452

15. Duke University — Average SAT: 1454

15. Pomona College — Average SAT: 1454

14. Rice University — Average SAT: 1460

13. Northwestern University — Average SAT: 1461

12. Stanford University — Average SAT: 1465

11. Columbia University — Average SAT: 1470

10. Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering — Average SAT: 1475

9. Washington University in St Louis — Average SAT: 1478

8. Vanderbilt University — Average SAT: 1481

7. Princeton University — Average SAT: 1491

6. Yale University — Average SAT: 1493

4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Average SAT: 1500

4. Harvey Mudd College — Average SAT score: 1500

3. Harvard University — Average SAT: 1501

2. University of Chicago — Average SAT: 1505

1. California Institute of Technology — Average SAT: 1545