Smith earned 27 ranking badges in the 2027 College Factual rankings: 0 in the top 1%, 7 in the top 5%, 11 in the top 10% and 9 in the top 15% of the schools in each ranking. Its highest placement is #2 of 99 in Location Diversity (Massachusetts), a top 5% award.
Key facts
Badges earned: 27 (2027 edition)
In the top 1% / top 5%: 0 / 7
Highest placement: #2 of 99, a top 5% award
Fields of study with a badge: 12
Placements this edition: 191
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 Smith College Earned?
Smith College holds 27 ranking badges across 12 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 athletics or online-program rankings. We update our rankings throughout the year as new data becomes available. The current ranking cycle is 2027 edition. For every ranking, the check mark shows the top tier achieved. Read 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%
11
Top 15%
9
Total
27
What Is Smith College Known For?
Smith College is best known for Social Sciences: 4 of its 27 traditional-student awards are in that field. Its top-ranked majors include Social Work, East Asian Languages and General English Literature.
Smith College earned no veterans badge in the 2027 edition; its highest placement in College Factual’s veterans rankings is #3,995 of 4,939 in Best for Veterans.
Badges on this page come from rankings calculated from federal education data, 2027 edition. Smith College appears in 191 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