NOTE: article follows but since there is a tie for 6th, the way i see it, we're in the Top 10
The 104 Smartest Public Colleges In America
Oct. 27, 2014, US News & World Report.
ACT scores were translated into SAT scores (math + verbal) using this concordance table, so that all schools could be compared using one metric. Then, an average of the 25th and 75th percentile was computed.
Here are the smartest public colleges in America:
Smarts Rank School Average SAT
1 Georgia Institute of Technology 1385
2 University of California-Berkeley 1375
3 College of William and Mary 1365
4 United States Air Force Academy 1360
5 University of Virginia 1355
6 "Michigan School of Mimes" (UM) 1340
6 Colorado School of Mines 1340
8 University of California-Los Angeles 1320
9 University of Maryland-College Park 1310
10 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill 1305
11 Ohio State University-Columbus 1300