Fire Safety Honor Roll

We salute the following 62 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 2027 edition of our book The Best 392 Colleges .

College Ratings Methodology

In alphabetical order, the schools on our 2027 Fire Safety Honor Roll are:

• Adelphi University (Garden City, NY)
• Alfred University (Alfred, NY)
• Barton College* (Wilson, NC)
• Bentley University (Waltham, MA)
• Bowdoin College (Brunswick, ME)
• Brenau University* (Gainesville, GA)
• Bridgewater State University* (Bridgewater, MA)
• Carleton College (Northfield, MN)
• Champlain College (Burlington, VT)
• City University of New York—Queens College (Queens, NY)
• College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University (Collegeville, MN)
• Dean College* (Franklin, MA)
• Denison University (Granville, OH)
• Duquesne University (Pittsburgh, PA)
• East Carolina University (Greenville, NC)
• Elmhurst University* (Elmhurst, IL)
• Emmanuel College* (Boston, MA)
• Farmingdale State College, State University of New York* (Farmingdale, NY)
• Fordham University (Bronx, NY)
• Framingham State University* (Framingham, MA)
• Hofstra University (Hempstead, NY)
• Ithaca College (Ithaca, NY)
• Louisiana State University—Baton Rouge (Baton Rouge, LA)
• Loyola University New Orleans (New Orleans, LA)
• Macalester College (Saint Paul, MN)
• Marquette University (Milwaukee, WI)
• Millikin University* (Decatur, IL)
• Monmouth University (NJ) (West Long Branch, NJ)
• Moravian University (Bethlehem, PA)
• Mount Saint Mary's University* (Los Angeles, CA)
• Muhlenberg College (Allentown, PA)
• New York University (New York, NY)
• North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC)
• Ohio Wesleyan University (Delaware, OH)
• Quinnipiac University (Hamden, CT)
• Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, NY)
• St. John's University (NY) (Queens, NY)
• State University of New York - College of Environmental Science and Forestry (Syracuse, NY)
• State University of New York at Geneseo (Geneseo, NY)
• Stockton University* (Galloway, NJ)
• Texas State University (San Marcos, TX)
• The College of New Jersey (Ewing, NJ)
• The University of North Carolina—Charlotte (Charlotte, NC)
• The University of North Carolina—Greensboro (Greensboro, NC)
• Towson University* (Towson, MD)
• Truman State University (Kirksville, MO)
• United States Air Force Academy (USAF Academy, CO)
• University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ)
• University of Maine (Orono, ME)
• University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Baltimore, MD)
• University of New Hampshire (Durham, NH)
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC)
• University of South Florida (Tampa, FL)
• University of St. Francis (IL) (Joliet, IL)
• University of Vermont (Burlington, VT)
• Wagner College (Staten Island, NY)
• Washington College (Chestertown, MD)
• Webb Institute (Glen Cove, NY)
• Weber State University* (Ogden, UT)
• West Chester University of Pennsylvania* (West Chester, PA)
• Worcester State University* (Worcester, MA)
• Xavier University of Louisiana (New Orleans, LA)

* Schools with an asterisk are not profiled in The Best 392 Colleges , but they are profiled in The Princeton Review’s college search .