Macalester earned 58 ranking badges in the 2027 College Factual rankings: 3 in the top 1%, 9 in the top 5%, 27 in the top 10% and 19 in the top 15% of the schools in each ranking. Its highest placement is #1 of 59 in Most Focused for Geography and Environmental Studies., a top 1% award.
Key facts
Badges earned: 58 (2027 edition)
In the top 1% / top 5%: 3 / 9
Highest placement: #1 of 59, a top 1% award
Fields of study with a badge: 12
Placements this edition: 169
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 Macalester College Earned?
Macalester College holds 58 ranking badges across 12 fields of study, 12 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. College Factual re-runs each ranking as fresh data is published. The awards below are from the 2027 edition. Each row marks the highest award tier reached in that ranking. See our data sources and methodologies. College administrators who want to showcase these awards through our badge program can contact us.
Count by Award Level
Award Level
Badges
Top 1%
3
Top 5%
9
Top 10%
27
Top 15%
19
Total
58
What Is Macalester College Known For?
Macalester College is best known for Foreign Languages & Linguistics: 5 of its 35 traditional-student awards are in that field. Its top-ranked majors include Germanic Languages, Geography and Environmental Studies. and Multicultural & Diversity Studies.
Macalester College earned no veterans badge in the 2027 edition; its highest placement in College Factual’s veterans rankings is #4,070 of 4,939 in Best for Veterans.
Each ranking here is calculated from federal education data, 2027 edition. Macalester College appears in 169 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