What is the best college in Ohio? Niche ranks top 10 universities for 2025. See the list

Is college in the future for you, your child or another loved one?

Ohio has public and private colleges and universities all across the state, but which one is the right fit? Potential students and their families have to consider many factors: The overall value for the money, the cost of tuition, acceptance and graduation rates, program choices and more.

If you're researching colleges, websites like Niche can help. Niche gathers that data and more, assigns a letter grade to each institution and gives students a platform to post reviews.

And Niche's list of the Best Colleges in America for 2025 compares 1,000 schools "based on rigorous analysis of key statistics and millions of student and alumni reviews," according to its website.

Here's a look at how Ohio colleges and universities fared.

The top 10 colleges and universities in Ohio, per Niche

Niche ranked Ohio's colleges and universities based on an analysis of their academics, admissions, financial and student life data from the U.S. Department of Education. These are the 10 schools that came out on top:

1. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland

   • Overall grade: A

   • Net price per year: $41,351

   • Acceptance rate: 29%

   • Total undergraduate students: 6,186

   • Popular majors: computer science (149 graduates), biology (114), mechanical engineering (106)

2. The Ohio State University, Columbus

   • Overall grade: A

   • Net price per year: $19,575

   • Acceptance rate: 51%

   • Total undergraduate students: 45,728

   • Popular majors: finance (817 graduates), research and experimental psychology (646), communications (528)

3. Kenyon College, Gambier

   • Overall grade: A

   • Net price per year: $44,470

   • Acceptance rate: 31%

   • Total undergraduate students: 2,184

   • Popular majors: English (86 graduates), economics (61), psychology (47)

4. University of Dayton

   • Overall grade: A

   • Net price per year: $31,551

   • Acceptance rate: 62%

   • Total undergraduate students: 7,740

   • Popular majors: finance (171 graduates), mechanical engineering (166), marketing (155)

5. University of Cincinnati

   • Overall grade: A-

   • Net price per year: $21,511

   • Acceptance rate: 88%

   • Total undergraduate students: 41,233

   • Popular majors: marketing (502 graduates), nursing (385), finance (326)

6. Denison University, Granville

   • Overall grade: A-

   • Net price per year: $42,177

   • Acceptance rate: 17%

   • Total undergraduate students: 2,405

   • Popular majors: economics (78 graduates), communications (51), biology (47)

7. Cedarville Univesity

   • Overall grade: A-

   • Net price per year: $27,047

   • Acceptance rate: 63%

   • Total undergraduate students: 4,916

   • Popular majors: nursing (136 graduates), mechanical engineering (48), psychology (39)

8. Ohio Northern University, Ada

   • Overall grade: B+

   • Net price per year: $26,396

   • Acceptance rate: 73%

   • Total undergraduate students: 2,847

   • Popular majors: pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences (87 graduates), mechanical engineering (66), biology (23)

9. College of Wooster

   • Overall grade: B+

   • Net price per year: $29,529

   • Acceptance rate: 54%

   • Total undergraduate students: 1,730

   • Popular majors: political science and government (43 graduates), research and experimental psychology (36), biology (31)

10. Ohio University, Athens

    • Overall grade: B+

    • Net price per year: $20,550

    • Acceptance rate: 85%

    • Total undergraduate students: 16,597

    • Popular majors: nursing (1,398 graduates), marketing (260), psychology (247)

The top 10 colleges and universities in the nation

These colleges and universities are the tops in the nation per Niche's 2025 ranking:

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts

2. Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

3. Stanford University, Stanford, California

4. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

5. Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

6. California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, California

7. University of Chicago, Chicago

8. Columbia University, New York City

9. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

10. Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: What are the best colleges in Ohio? See the top 10, per Niche. Full list