We salute the following 36 colleges that made our Fire Safety Honor Roll by receiving a Fire Safety Rating of 99 (the highest possible score) in our rating tallies this year.
We tallied Fire Safety Rating scores for 649 colleges this year. You can find these ratings in the profiles for those schools on our college search and in the 2026 edition of our book .
In alphabetical order, the schools on our 2026 Fire Safety Honor Roll are:
- Adelphi University* (Garden City, NY)
- Alfred University (Alfred, NY)
- Bentley University (Waltham, MA)
- Brenau University* (Gainesville, GA)
- Dean College* (Franklin, MA)
- Duquesne University (Pittsburgh, PA)
- East Carolina University (Greenville, NC)
- Emmanuel College* (Boston, MA)
- Fordham University (Bronx, NY)
- Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering (Needham, MA)
- Georgia College & State University* (Milledgeville, GA)
- Georgian Court University* (Lakewood, NJ)
- Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)
- Kean University* (Union, NJ)
- Loyola University New Orleans (New Orleans, LA)
- Manhattanville College (Purchase, NY)
- Moravian University (Bethlehem, PA)
- Mount Saint Mary's University* (Los Angeles, CA)
- New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, NJ)
- Pacific Lutheran University* (Tacoma, WA)
- Quinnipiac University (Hamden, CT)
- State University of New York - College of Environmental Science and Forestry (Syracuse, NY)
- State University of New York - Farmingdale State College* (Farmingdale, NY)
- Towson University* (Towson, MD)
- Tufts University (Medford, MA)
- United States Air Force Academy (USAF Academy, CO)
- University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ)
- University of La Verne* (La Verne, CA)
- University of Maine (Orono, ME)
- University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Baltimore, MD)
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro (Greensboro, NC)
- University of South Florida (Tampa, FL)
- University of St. Francis (IL) (Joliet, IL)
- University of Tampa (Tampa, FL)
- Western Kentucky University* (Bowling Green, KY)
- Xavier University of Louisiana (New Orleans, LA)
* Schools with an asterisk are not profiled in The Best 391 Colleges, but they are profiled in The Princeton Review’s college search.