Lake Forest earned 21 ranking badges in the 2027 College Factual rankings: 0 in the top 1%, 2 in the top 5%, 10 in the top 10% and 9 in the top 15% of the schools in each ranking. Its highest placement is #5 of 258 in Most Focused for Child Development & Psychology, a top 5% award.
Key facts
Badges earned: 21 (2027 edition)
In the top 1% / top 5%: 0 / 2
Highest placement: #5 of 258, a top 5% award
Fields of study with a badge: 8
Placements this edition: 146
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 Lake Forest College Earned?
Lake Forest College holds 21 ranking badges across 8 fields of study, 2 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. We update our rankings throughout the year as new data becomes available. The awards below are from the 2027 edition. For every ranking, the check mark shows the top tier achieved. See 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%
0
Top 5%
2
Top 10%
10
Top 15%
9
Total
21
What Is Lake Forest College Known For?
Lake Forest College is best known for Business, Management & Marketing: 2 of its 19 traditional-student awards are in that field. Its top-ranked majors include Child Development & Psychology, Finance & Financial Management and History.
Lake Forest College earned no veterans badge in the 2027 edition; its highest placement in College Factual’s veterans rankings is #4,076 of 4,939 in Best for Veterans.
Each ranking here is built on federal education data, 2027 edition. Lake Forest College appears in 146 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