West Point earned 27 ranking badges in the 2026 College Factual rankings: 4 in the top 1%, 4 in the top 5%, 8 in the top 10% and 11 in the top 15% of the schools in each ranking. Its highest placement is #1 of 8 in Most Focused for Military Applied Sciences, a top 1% award.
Key facts
Badges earned: 27 (2026 edition)
In the top 1% / top 5%: 4 / 4
Highest placement: #1 of 8, a top 1% award
Fields of study with a badge: 10
Placements this edition: 60
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 United States Military Academy Earned?
United States Military Academy holds 27 ranking badges across 10 fields of study, 8 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, online-program or veterans rankings. We update our rankings throughout the year as new data becomes available. The awards below are from the 2026 edition. For every ranking, the check mark shows the top tier achieved. 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%
4
Top 5%
4
Top 10%
8
Top 15%
11
Total
27
What Is United States Military Academy Known For?
United States Military Academy is best known for Engineering: 5 of its 27 traditional-student awards are in that field. Its top-ranked majors include Military Applied Sciences, Geography & Cartography and History.
College Factual’s rankings are built on federal education data, 2026 edition. United States Military Academy appears in 60 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