Sweet Briar earned 12 ranking badges in the 2026 College Factual rankings: 3 in the top 1%, 2 in the top 5%, 6 in the top 10% and 1 in the top 15% of the schools in each ranking. Its highest placement is #1 of 54 in Most Focused for Engineering Science, a top 1% award.
Key facts
Badges earned: 12 (2026 edition)
In the top 1% / top 5%: 3 / 2
Highest placement: #1 of 54, a top 1% award
Fields of study with a badge: 7
Placements this edition: 50
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 Sweet Briar College Earned?
Sweet Briar College holds 12 ranking badges across 7 fields of study, 5 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. This page reflects the 2026 edition. Each row marks the highest award tier reached in that 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%
3
Top 5%
2
Top 10%
6
Top 15%
1
Total
12
What Is Sweet Briar College Known For?
Sweet Briar College is best known for Social Sciences: 2 of its 12 traditional-student awards are in that field. Its top-ranked majors include Engineering Science, Archeology and History.
Sweet Briar College earned no veterans badge in the 2026 edition; its highest placement in College Factual’s veterans rankings is #3,404 of 4,939 in Best for Veterans.
Each ranking here is drawn from U.S. Department of Education data, 2026 edition. Sweet Briar College appears in 50 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