We salute the following 45 schools that made our 2025 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 593 colleges this year. You can find these ratings in the profiles for those schools on our college search, and in the 2025 edition of our book The Best 390 Colleges.
In alphabetical order, the schools on our 2025 Green Honor Roll are:
- American University (Washington, DC)
- Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ)
- Bennington College (Bennington, VT)
- Boston University (Boston, MA)
- Bowling Green State University* (Bowling Green, OH)
- California Polytechnic State University* (San Luis Obispo, CA)
- Colby College (Waterville, ME)
- Colgate University (Hamilton, NY)
- College of the Atlantic (Bar Harbor, ME)
- Colorado College (Colorado Springs, CO)
- Colorado State University (Fort Collins, CO)
- Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
- Emory University (Atlanta, GA)
- Grand Valley State University* (Allendale, MI)
- Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA)
- Lewis & Clark College (Portland, OR)
- Loyola Marymount University (Los Angeles, CA)
- Loyola University Chicago (Chicago, IL)
- New York University (New York, NY)
- Pitzer College (Claremont, CA)
- Portland State University (Portland, OR)
- Randolph College (Lynchburg, VA)
- San Francisco State University* (San Francisco, CA)
- Seattle Central College* (Seattle, WA)
- Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
- Sterling College (VT)* (Craftsbury Common, VT)
- Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, NJ)
- 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, Davis (Davis, CA)
- University of California, Irvine (Irvine, CA)
- University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA)
- University of Colorado Colorado Springs* (Colorado Springs, CO)
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Champaign, IL)
- University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, MD)
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (Amherst, MA)
- University of Massachusetts Lowell* (Lowell, MA)
- University of Miami (Coral Gables, FL)
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (Minneapolis, MN)
- University of North Carolina Asheville (Asheville, NC)
- University of Washington, Seattle (Seattle, WA)
- Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY)
- Williams College (Williamstown, MA)
*Schools with an asterisk are not profiled in The Best 390 Colleges, but they are profiled in The Princeton Review's college search.
