Swarthmore earned 76 ranking badges in the 2027 College Factual rankings: 7 in the top 1%, 27 in the top 5%, 35 in the top 10% and 7 in the top 15% of the schools in each ranking. Its highest placement is #1 of 249 in Ethnic Diversity (Pennsylvania), a top 1% award.
Key facts
Badges earned: 76 (2027 edition)
In the top 1% / top 5%: 7 / 27
Highest placement: #1 of 249, a top 1% award
Fields of study with a badge: 12
Placements this edition: 154
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 Swarthmore College Earned?
Swarthmore College holds 76 ranking badges across 12 fields of study, 34 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 online-program rankings. College Factual re-runs each ranking as fresh data is published. This page reflects the 2027 edition. A check mark sits in the highest award tier the school reached. Find out more about 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%
7
Top 5%
27
Top 10%
35
Top 15%
7
Total
76
What Is Swarthmore College Known For?
Swarthmore College is best known for Social Sciences: 6 of its 46 traditional-student awards are in that field. Its top-ranked majors include Mathematics, General Engineering and Computer Information Systems.
In College Factual’s 2027 athletics rankings, Swarthmore College earned 30 badges across 19 sports, 16 of them in the top 5% or better; its highest placement is #5 of 705 in Golf.
Swarthmore College earned no veterans badge in the 2027 edition; its highest placement in College Factual’s veterans rankings is #3,137 of 4,939 in Best for Veterans.
College Factual’s rankings are built on federal education data, 2027 edition. Swarthmore College appears in 154 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