Whitman earned 59 ranking badges in the 2027 College Factual rankings: 1 in the top 1%, 12 in the top 5%, 24 in the top 10% and 22 in the top 15% of the schools in each ranking. Its highest placement is #3 of 325 in Most Focused for Geological & Earth Sciences, a top 1% award.
Key facts
Badges earned: 59 (2027 edition)
In the top 1% / top 5%: 1 / 12
Highest placement: #3 of 325, a top 1% award
Fields of study with a badge: 10
Placements this edition: 139
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 Whitman College Earned?
Whitman College holds 59 ranking badges across 10 fields of study, 13 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. Each ranking is recalculated when updated data becomes available. The awards below are from the 2027 edition. This page indicates the top award category achieved for this year. 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%
12
Top 10%
24
Top 15%
22
Total
59
What Is Whitman College Known For?
Whitman College is best known for Visual & Performing Arts: 5 of its 32 traditional-student awards are in that field. Its top-ranked majors include Geological & Earth Sciences, East Asian Languages and Anthropology.
In College Factual’s 2027 athletics rankings, Whitman College earned 27 badges across 17 sports, 3 of them in the top 5% or better; its highest placement is #8 of 186 in Swimming & Diving.
Whitman College earned no veterans badge in the 2027 edition; its highest placement in College Factual’s veterans rankings is #4,110 of 4,939 in Best for Veterans.
College Factual’s rankings are calculated from federal education data, 2027 edition. Whitman College appears in 139 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