We salute the following 37 schools that made our 2026 Green Honor Roll by receiving a score of 99 (the highest possible score) in our Green Rating tallies this year.
We tallied Green Rating scores for 401 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 Green Honor Roll are:
- American University (Washington, DC)
- Bennington College (Bennington, VT)
- California State University, San Bernardino* (San Bernardino, CA)
- Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)
- College of the Atlantic (Bar Harbor, ME)
- Colorado State University (Fort Collins, CO)
- Concordia University* (Montréal, QC)
- Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
- Grand Valley State University* (Allendale, MI)
- Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA)
- Loyola Marymount University (Los Angeles, CA)
- Loyola University Chicago (Chicago, IL)
- Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT)
- Pitzer College (Claremont, CA)
- Portland State University (Portland, OR)
- Randolph College (Lynchburg, VA)
- San Jose State University* (San Jose, CA)
- Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
- Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, NJ)
- Technological University Dublin* (Dublin, Ireland)
- The American College of Greece* (Athens, Greece)
- Thompson Rivers University* (Kamloops, BC)
- University at Buffalo* (Buffalo, NY)
- University College Cork - National University of Ireland, Cork* (Cork, Ireland)
- University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
- University of California, Merced (Merced, CA)
- University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA)
- University of California, Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA)
- University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, OH)
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Champaign, IL)
- University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA)
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (Amherst, MA)
- University of Miami (Coral Gables, FL)
- University of Sharjah* (Sharjah, United Arab Emirates)
- University of Victoria* (Victoria, BC)
- Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA)
- York University* (Toronto, ON)
* Schools with an asterisk are not profiled in The Best 391 Colleges, but they are profiled in The Princeton Review’s college search.