Lafayette earned 72 ranking badges in the 2027 College Factual rankings: 7 in the top 1%, 27 in the top 5%, 27 in the top 10% and 11 in the top 15% of the schools in each ranking. Its highest placement is #1 of 7 in Most Focused for Mathematical Economics., a top 1% award.
Key facts
Badges earned: 72 (2027 edition)
In the top 1% / top 5%: 7 / 27
Highest placement: #1 of 7, a top 1% award
Fields of study with a badge: 12
Placements this edition: 172
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 Lafayette College Earned?
Lafayette College holds 72 ranking badges across 12 fields of study, 34 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. This page reflects the 2027 edition. For every ranking, the check mark shows the top tier achieved. Read about our data sources and methodologies. Administrators interested in displaying College Factual badges can contact us.
Count by Award Level
Award Level
Badges
Top 1%
7
Top 5%
27
Top 10%
27
Top 15%
11
Total
72
What Is Lafayette College Known For?
Lafayette College is best known for Social Sciences: 13 of its 57 traditional-student awards are in that field. Its top-ranked majors include Mathematical Economics., General English Literature and Economics.
In College Factual’s 2027 athletics rankings, Lafayette College earned 15 badges across 10 sports, 5 of them in the top 5% or better; its highest placement is #14 of 704 in Soccer.
Lafayette College earned no veterans badge in the 2027 edition; its highest placement in College Factual’s veterans rankings is #8 of 18 in Top Ranked Veterans for Sociology & Anthropology (top 45%).
The rankings above are built on federal education data, 2027 edition. Lafayette College appears in 172 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