Columbia earned 37 ranking badges in the 2027 College Factual rankings: 2 in the top 1%, 12 in the top 5%, 12 in the top 10% and 11 in the top 15% of the schools in each ranking. Its highest placement is #11 of 2,047 in Most Popular for Visual & Performing Arts, a top 1% award.
Key facts
Badges earned: 37 (2027 edition)
In the top 1% / top 5%: 2 / 12
Highest placement: #11 of 2,047, a top 1% award
Fields of study with a badge: 6
Placements this edition: 127
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 Columbia College Chicago Earned?
Columbia College Chicago holds 37 ranking badges across 6 fields of study, 14 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 athletics or online-program rankings. Rankings on this page are updated as new federal data is released. Placements shown are from the 2027 edition. The tier columns show the best placement reached in each 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%
12
Top 10%
12
Top 15%
11
Total
37
What Is Columbia College Chicago Known For?
Columbia College Chicago is best known for Visual & Performing Arts: 14 of its 36 traditional-student awards are in that field. Its top-ranked majors include Drama & Theater Arts, Design & Applied Arts and Film, Video & Photographic Arts.
College Factual’s rankings are based primarily on data from the U.S. Department of Education, 2027 edition. Columbia College Chicago appears in 127 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