Olivet Nazarene earned 21 ranking badges in the 2027 College Factual rankings: 0 in the top 1%, 4 in the top 5%, 9 in the top 10% and 8 in the top 15% of the schools in each ranking. Its highest placement is #5 of 204 in Most Focused for Teaching English or French, a top 5% award.
Key facts
Source: IPEDS 2025; College Scorecard July 2026; College Factual rankings 2027. Data as of: July 2026.
Olivet Nazarene University holds 21 ranking badges across 5 fields of study, 4 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 athletics or online-program rankings. We update our rankings throughout the year as new data becomes available. 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. Want to feature these awards on your college’s site? Administrators can contact us.
| Award Level | Badges |
|---|---|
| Top 1% | 0 |
| Top 5% | 4 |
| Top 10% | 9 |
| Top 15% | 8 |
| Total | 21 |
Olivet Nazarene University is best known for Education: 5 of its 21 traditional-student awards are in that field. Its top-ranked majors include Teaching English or French, Teacher Education Subject Specific and General Engineering.
| Ranking | Top 15% | Top 10% | Top 5% | Top 1% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall Best | ✓ | |||
| Overall Best (Great Lakes) | ✓ | |||
| Overall Diversity | ✓ | |||
| Overall Diversity (Great Lakes) | ✓ | |||
| Overall Diversity (Illinois) | ✓ | |||
| Location Diversity | ✓ | |||
| Location Diversity (Great Lakes) | ✓ | |||
| Location Diversity (Illinois) | ✓ |
| Ranking | Top 15% | Top 10% | Top 5% | Top 1% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top Ranked | ✓ |
| Ranking | Top 15% | Top 10% | Top 5% | Top 1% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Curriculum & Instruction | ||||
| Highest Paid Graduates | ✓ | |||
| Special Education | ||||
| Top Ranked | ✓ | |||
| Teacher Education Subject Specific | ||||
| Most Focused | ✓ | |||
| Teaching English or French | ||||
| Most Popular | ✓ | |||
| Most Focused | ✓ |
| Ranking | Top 15% | Top 10% | Top 5% | Top 1% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Engineering | ||||
| Most Focused | ✓ |
| Ranking | Top 15% | Top 10% | Top 5% | Top 1% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top Ranked | ✓ | |||
| Child Development & Family Studies | ||||
| Top Ranked | ✓ |
| Ranking | Top 15% | Top 10% | Top 5% | Top 1% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top Ranked | ✓ | |||
| Pastoral Specialized Ministries | ||||
| Top Ranked | ✓ | |||
| Best Value | ✓ | |||
| Most Popular | ✓ |
Olivet Nazarene University earned no veterans badge in the 2027 edition; its highest placement in College Factual’s veterans rankings is #1,012 of 4,939 in Best for Veterans (top 21%).
The rankings above are grounded in U.S. Department of Education data, 2027 edition. Olivet Nazarene University appears in 153 of the College Factual rankings covered on this page.
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