Auburn earned 118 ranking badges in the 2027 College Factual rankings: 2 in the top 1%, 41 in the top 5%, 36 in the top 10% and 39 in the top 15% of the schools in each ranking. Its highest placement is #1 of 30 in Most Popular for Architectural Engineering, a top 1% award.
Key facts
Badges earned: 118 (2027 edition)
In the top 1% / top 5%: 2 / 41
Highest placement: #1 of 30, a top 1% award
Fields of study with a badge: 19
Placements this edition: 521
Badge cutoff: a top 15% placement in a ranking
Source: IPEDS 2025; College Scorecard July 2026; College Factual rankings 2027. Data as of: July 2026.
How Many Ranking Badges Has Auburn University Earned?
Auburn University holds 118 ranking badges across 19 fields of study, 43 of them in the top 5% or better; each badge is an award for placing in the top 15% of a ranking. It has no placements this edition in College Factual’s online-program rankings. Rankings on this page are updated as new federal data is released. Placements shown are from the 2027 edition. Each row marks the highest award tier reached in that ranking. Learn more about our data sources and methodologies. If you are an administrator interested in using our badge program to showcase your college’s strengths, please contact us.
Count by Award Level
Award Level
Badges
Top 1%
2
Top 5%
41
Top 10%
36
Top 15%
39
Total
118
What Is Auburn University Known For?
Auburn University is best known for Business, Management & Marketing: 15 of its 109 traditional-student awards are in that field. Its top-ranked majors include Architectural Engineering, Liberal Arts General Studies and Accounting.
In College Factual’s 2027 athletics rankings, Auburn University earned 9 badges across 8 sports, 4 of them in the top 5% or better; its highest placement is #19 of 596 in Football.
Auburn University earned no veterans badge in the 2027 edition; its highest placement in College Factual’s veterans rankings is #865 of 4,939 in Best for Veterans (top 18%).
Each ranking here is built on federal education data, 2027 edition. Auburn University appears in 521 of the College Factual rankings covered on this page.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE), serves as the core of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
by our College Data Analytics Team