Union College earned 61 ranking badges in the 2027 College Factual rankings: 1 in the top 1%, 8 in the top 5%, 23 in the top 10% and 29 in the top 15% of the schools in each ranking. Its highest placement is #1 of 204 in Most Focused for Biomedical Engineering, a top 1% award.
Key facts
Badges earned: 61 (2027 edition)
In the top 1% / top 5%: 1 / 8
Highest placement: #1 of 204, a top 1% award
Fields of study with a badge: 11
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 Union College Earned?
Union College holds 61 ranking badges across 11 fields of study, 9 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. We update our rankings throughout the year as new data becomes available. The current ranking cycle is 2027 edition. Each row marks the highest award tier reached in that ranking. See our data sources and methodologies. Administrators interested in displaying College Factual badges can contact us.
Count by Award Level
Award Level
Badges
Top 1%
1
Top 5%
8
Top 10%
23
Top 15%
29
Total
61
What Is Union College Known For?
Union College is best known for Biological & Biomedical Sciences: 5 of its 38 traditional-student awards are in that field. Its top-ranked majors include Biomedical Engineering, Geological & Earth Sciences and Economics.
In College Factual’s 2027 athletics rankings, Union College earned 23 badges across 18 sports, 3 of them in the top 5% or better; its highest placement is #5 of 91 in Swimming & Diving (D3).
Union College earned no veterans badge in the 2027 edition; its highest placement in College Factual’s veterans rankings is #3,182 of 4,939 in Best for Veterans.
The rankings above are drawn from U.S. Department of Education data, 2027 edition. Union 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