Reed earned 19 ranking badges in the 2027 College Factual rankings: 3 in the top 1%, 8 in the top 5%, 6 in the top 10% and 2 in the top 15% of the schools in each ranking. Its highest placement is #4 of 946 in Most Focused for General English Literature, a top 1% award.
Key facts
Badges earned: 19 (2027 edition)
In the top 1% / top 5%: 3 / 8
Highest placement: #4 of 946, a top 1% award
Fields of study with a badge: 11
Placements this edition: 115
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 Reed College Earned?
Reed College holds 19 ranking badges across 11 fields of study, 11 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. Rankings on this page are updated as new federal data is released. This page reflects the 2027 edition. The tier columns show the best placement reached in each ranking. See our data sources and methodologies. If you are an administrator interested in using our badge program to showcase your college’s strengths, please contact us.
Count by Award Level
Award Level
Badges
Top 1%
3
Top 5%
8
Top 10%
6
Top 15%
2
Total
19
What Is Reed College Known For?
Reed College is best known for Social Sciences: 2 of its 19 traditional-student awards are in that field. Its top-ranked majors include General English Literature, Anthropology and Mathematics.
Reed College earned no veterans badge in the 2027 edition; its highest placement in College Factual’s veterans rankings is #4,634 of 4,939 in Best for Veterans.
The rankings above are drawn from U.S. Department of Education data, 2027 edition. Reed College appears in 115 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