Principia College Ranking Badges

Principia earned 7 ranking badges in the 2026 College Factual rankings: 0 in the top 1%, 6 in the top 5%, 1 in the top 10% and 0 in the top 15% of the schools in each ranking. Its highest placement is #12 of 1,027 in Most Focused for Communication & Media Studies, a top 5% award.

Key facts

Badges earned: 7 (2026 edition)
In the top 1% / top 5%: 0 / 6
Highest placement: #12 of 1,027, a top 5% award
Fields of study with a badge: 4
Placements this edition: 21
Badge cutoff: a top 15% placement in a ranking

Source: IPEDS 2025; College Scorecard July 2026; College Factual rankings 2026. Data as of: July 2026.

How Many Ranking Badges Has Principia College Earned?

Principia College holds 7 ranking badges across 4 fields of study, 6 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, online-program or veterans rankings. Our rankings are refreshed through the year as new data arrives. Placements shown are from the 2026 edition. The tier columns show the best placement reached in each ranking. 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%	6
Top 10%	1
Top 15%	0
Total	7

What Is Principia College Known For?

Principia College is best known for Communication & Journalism: 1 of its 7 traditional-student awards is in that field. Its top-ranked majors include Communication & Media Studies, Entrepreneurial Studies and Ecology & Systematics Biology.

College Overall

Ranking	Top 10%	Top 5%
Location Diversity	✓
Location Diversity (Great Lakes)		✓
Location Diversity (Illinois)		✓

Biological & Biomedical Sciences

Ranking	Top 15%	Top 10%	Top 5%	Top 1%
Ecology & Systematics Biology
Most Focused			✓

Business, Management & Marketing

Ranking	Top 15%	Top 10%	Top 5%	Top 1%
Entrepreneurial Studies
Most Focused			✓

Communication & Journalism

Ranking	Top 15%	Top 10%	Top 5%	Top 1%
Communication & Media Studies
Most Focused			✓

Education

Ranking	Top 15%	Top 10%	Top 5%	Top 1%
General Education
Most Focused			✓

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Notes and References

College Factual’s rankings are built on federal education data, 2026 edition. Principia College appears in 21 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.