Rio Salado College earned 40 ranking badges in the 2027 College Factual rankings: 6 in the top 1%, 10 in the top 5%, 10 in the top 10% and 14 in the top 15% of the schools in each ranking. Its highest placement is #2 of 1,758 in Highest Paid Graduates for Business Administration & Management, a top 1% award.
Key facts
Badges earned: 40 (2027 edition)
In the top 1% / top 5%: 6 / 10
Highest placement: #2 of 1,758, a top 1% award
Fields of study with a badge: 10
Placements this edition: 160
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 Rio Salado College Earned?
Rio Salado College holds 40 ranking badges across 10 fields of study, 16 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. Our rankings are refreshed through the year as new data arrives. The awards below are from the 2027 edition. A check mark sits in the highest award tier the school reached. Learn more about 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%
6
Top 5%
10
Top 10%
10
Top 15%
14
Total
40
What Is Rio Salado College Known For?
Rio Salado College is best known for Business, Management & Marketing: 12 of its 39 traditional-student awards are in that field. Its top-ranked majors include Business Administration & Management, Criminal Justice & Corrections and Business Support & Assistance.
College Factual’s rankings are grounded in U.S. Department of Education data, 2027 edition. Rio Salado College appears in 160 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