Gettysburg earned 55 ranking badges in the 2027 College Factual rankings: 5 in the top 1%, 5 in the top 5%, 21 in the top 10% and 24 in the top 15% of the schools in each ranking. Its highest placement is #1 of 928 in Most Focused for History, a top 1% award.
Key facts
Badges earned: 55 (2027 edition)
In the top 1% / top 5%: 5 / 5
Highest placement: #1 of 928, a top 1% award
Fields of study with a badge: 9
Placements this edition: 161
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 Gettysburg College Earned?
Gettysburg College holds 55 ranking badges across 9 fields of study, 10 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. Each ranking is recalculated when updated data becomes available. Placements shown are from the 2027 edition. For every ranking, the check mark shows the top tier achieved. Read about our data sources and methodologies. Want to feature these awards on your college’s site? Administrators can contact us.
Count by Award Level
Award Level
Badges
Top 1%
5
Top 5%
5
Top 10%
21
Top 15%
24
Total
55
What Is Gettysburg College Known For?
Gettysburg College is best known for Biological & Biomedical Sciences: 4 of its 32 traditional-student awards are in that field. Its top-ranked majors include History, Physiology & Pathology Sciences and Business Administration & Management.
In College Factual’s 2027 athletics rankings, Gettysburg College earned 23 badges across 16 sports, 1 of them in the top 5% or better; its highest placement is #37 of 731 in Tennis.
Gettysburg College earned no veterans badge in the 2027 edition; its highest placement in College Factual’s veterans rankings is #3,429 of 4,939 in Best for Veterans.
College Factual’s rankings are calculated from federal education data, 2027 edition. Gettysburg College appears in 161 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