Stony Brook and St. Joe’s rank highest among Long Island colleges in new report

Stony Brook and St. Joseph’s are the two highest-ranked Long Island schools in a new study that identifies the best and worst colleges and universities in the United States.

In all, seven Long Island colleges and universities are among the top 500 schools of higher education in the country, according to the report released this week by WalletHub.

Stony Brook University is ranked No. 104 in the United States and No. 51 in the study’s North Region, while St. Joseph’s University, New York came in at No. 220 in the nation and placed 92nd in the North Region.

St. Joseph’s, with campuses in Patchogue and Brooklyn, impressively is one of the 16 safest schools in America, according to the study. The 4,000-student university finished in a 16-way tie for first place in safety, which is one of seven categories evaluated in the WalletHub study.

Other categories include student selectivity, cost & financing, and career outcomes. WalletHub said it examined 30 key measures — ranging from student-faculty ratio to graduation rate to post-attendance median salary — in producing its annual higher education report.

Of note, a large number of prestigious destination schools finished behind Stony Brook and St. Joseph’s in the rankings, namely Syracuse, Michigan State, Gonzaga, the Rochester Institute of Technology, Scranton and Drexel.

Long Island’s Top 7 Colleges & Universities

Below is a breakdown of the top seven colleges and universities on Long Island. (Scroll down for WalletHub’s list of the Top 100 colleges and universities in the United States.)

1. Princeton
2. Yale
3. Harvard
4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5. Dartmouth
6. Rice
7. California Institute of Technology
8. Carnegie Mellon
9. Northwestern
10. Johns Hopkins
11. Swarthmore College
12. Columbia
13. Stanford
14. Georgia Institute of Technology
15. Duke
16. Notre Dame
17. Brown
18. Washington and Lee
19. Washington University in St. Louis
20. University of Florida
21. Hamilton College
22. Vanderbilt
23. Claremont McKenna College
24. University of Pennsylvania
25. Amherst College
26. University of Chicago
27. Wellesley College
28. UCLA
29. Harvey Mudd College
30. Pomona College
31. Cornell
32. Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
33. Boston College
34. University of California, San Diego
35. University of California, Berkeley
36. Vassar College
37. University of California, Irvine
38. Northeastern University
39. Carleton College
40. Middlebury College
41. North Carolina
42. Michigan
43. Grinnell College
44. Virginia
45. Barnard College
46. Colby College
47. Tufts University
48. University of Richmond
49. Haverford College
50. Case Western Reserve University
51. Florida State
52. Colgate
53. University of Texas at Austin
54. Georgetown
55. USC
56. New York University
57. Smith College
58. College of the Holy Cross
59. Mount Holyoke College
60. Boston University
61. Wesleyan University
62. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
63. University of California, Santa Barbara
64. Macalester College
65. Trinity University
66. Emory University
67. Binghamton University — SUNY
68. Georgia
69. Centre College
70. Davidson College
71. William & Mary
72. California Polytechnic State University —San Luis Obispo
73. University of Rochester
74. Rhodes College
75. Lehigh
76. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
77. CUNY — Baruch College
78. DePauw University
79. Villanova
80. Kenyon College
81. North Carolina State
82. Stevens Institute of Technology
83. University of Maryland
84. Brandeis University
85. Rhode Island School of Design
86. Muhlenberg College
87. Trinity College
88. Oberlin College and Conservatory
89. Gettysburg College
90. St. Olaf College
91. Yeshiva University
92. Illinois Institute of Technology
93. Union College (NY)
94. University of Wisconsin
95. Skidmore College
96. College of the Ozarks
97. Connecticut College
98. Purdue
99. University of Connecticut
100. Whitman College

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