Oxy earned 56 ranking badges in the 2027 College Factual rankings: 0 in the top 1%, 7 in the top 5%, 24 in the top 10% and 25 in the top 15% of the schools in each ranking. Its highest placement is #5 of 278 in Most Focused for Linguistics & Literature, a top 5% award.
Key facts
Badges earned: 56 (2027 edition)
In the top 1% / top 5%: 0 / 7
Highest placement: #5 of 278, a top 5% award
Fields of study with a badge: 9
Placements this edition: 149
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 Occidental College Earned?
Occidental College holds 56 ranking badges across 9 fields of study, 7 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. The current ranking cycle is 2027 edition. This page indicates the top award category achieved for this year. Learn more 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%
0
Top 5%
7
Top 10%
24
Top 15%
25
Total
56
What Is Occidental College Known For?
Occidental College is best known for Visual & Performing Arts: 6 of its 31 traditional-student awards are in that field. Its top-ranked majors include Linguistics & Literature, Romance Languages and Economics.
Occidental College earned no veterans badge in the 2027 edition; its highest placement in College Factual’s veterans rankings is #3,723 of 4,939 in Best for Veterans.
The rankings above are built on federal education data, 2027 edition. Occidental College appears in 149 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