Harvey Mudd in Princeton Review’s Best 390 Colleges for 2025

Harvey Mudd College was named one of the country’s top undergraduate institutions in The Princeton Review’s latest college guide, The Best 390 Colleges for 2025.

The Princeton Review chooses which colleges to include in the guide based on the quality of their educational programs but does not rank the colleges overall. This year, the company’s editors named the top 25 colleges in 50 separate categories, ranging from laboratory facilities to financial aid to campus food. The ranking lists are based on The Princeton Review’s surveys of students currently attending the colleges.

Harvey Mudd’s rankings in The Princeton Review’s Best 390 Colleges 2025 (released August 2024) and Best Value Colleges 2024 (released June 2024) include:

• No. 2 for “Best Career Placement (Private Schools)”
• No. 4 for “Top 50 Best Value Colleges (Private Schools)”
• No. 4 for “Top 20 Best Schools for Internships (Private Schools)”
• No. 7 for “Most Accessible Professors”
• No. 14 for “Professors Get High Marks”
• Top 50 (unranked list) for “Colleges That Create Futures”
• No. 2 for “Top 20 Best Value Private Colleges for Students With No Demonstrated Need”

Harvey Mudd meets 100% of demonstrated financial need for all students, and about 70% of students receive need-based or merit awards, or a combination.

In The Princeton Review’s profile of Harvey Mudd, the editors write, “Even among elite institutions, Harvey Mudd College stands out, a liberal arts school with a firm STEM focus.” Students are quoted as saying they “have had the best support system,” with “incredible” professors that are “truly dedicated to undergraduate teaching” and are “always willing to spend hours outside of class answering questions.” 

The students surveyed also praised the broad Core curriculum at Harvey Mudd which “produces scientists who can rise to meet interdisciplinary challenges within the sciences” and facilitates “great post-grad opportunities.”

The students described the College as having a “strong community of talented students that build each other up,” and a “small, tight-knit community in which everyone looks after one another.”