To be included in the Top 27, a university needs to be ranked in the Top 60 of at least four of the following lists: Top Universities, Appily, Niche, College Vine, and Times Higher Education. I then excluded the maximum and minimum rankings and averaged the remaining scores to determine the final ranking.

TOP 27

Hist RK	School	AVG	RK	DIFF
1	Harvard University	2.0	1	0
2	Princeton University	4.0	4	2
3	Stanford University	4.0	3	0
4	Yale University	4.3	5	1
5	University of Chicago	7.3	12	7
6	Columbia University	10.3	7	1
7	University of Pennsylvania	12.7	6	-1
8	Brown University	13.0	17	9
9	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	15.7	2	-7
10	University of California, Los Angeles	16.3	15	5
11	Johns Hopkins University	16.7	9	-2
12	Duke University	17.7	13	1
13	Northwestern University	18.3	14	1
14	University of California, Berkeley	19.3	11	-3
15	University of Michigan	23.3	16	1
16	Dartmouth College	23.7	24	8
17	Georgetown University	24.0	30	13
18	Rice University	28.0	33	15
19	Vanderbilt University	28.7	20	1
20	University of Notre Dame	28.7	36	16
21	Cornell University	30.7	8	-13
22	University of Southern California	34.0	22	0
23	New York University	34.3	25	2
24	University of Virginia	36.7	37	13
25	Emory University	36.7	38	13
26	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	38.0	26	0
27	Washington University in St. Louis	39.0	21	-6

Biggest Gainers

Emory (+13), Virginia (+13), Notre Dame (+16), Rice (+15), and Georgetown (+13) are the biggest movers, but History sees the slightest changes in our series yet.

Don’t Forget the Liberal Arts!

Rankings can forget most Liberal Arts schools, but you should heavily consider one if history is your passion.

Pomona (5), Williams (8), Amherst (9), Swarthmore (12), Bowdoin (16), Barnard (18), and Wellesley (19) would all make the Top 25 if we looked at only Appily, CollegeVine, and Niche rankings.