Cool Schools 2015 Corrections

After publication, Sierra discovered a number of errors in the scoring tool and formula used in our 2015 Cool Schools ranking. In an effort to make our ranking as accurate as possible, we repaired the errors and reran the data, which resulted in changes in position for many schools. Notably, Middlebury College in Vermont leaped into the #5 position. Sierra deeply regrets the errors and apologizes for any inconvenience they may have caused.

The Top 10: America's Greenest Universities | The Complete Ranking: All 153 Schools

Corrected Rank	School	Score
1	University of California, Irvine	867.29
2	University of California, Davis	787.46
3	University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh	786.91
4	Colorado State University	782.90
5	Middlebury College	779.08
6	Oberlin College	775.95
7	University of California, San Diego	766.77
8	University of Connecticut	766.30
9	Lewis & Clark College	762.55
10	University of Washington	761.70
11	Arizona State University	757.04
12	Dickinson College	753.79
13	University of California, Berkeley	753.65
14	University of South Florida	753.07
15	Green Mountain College	752.22
16	College of the Atlantic	746.90
17	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	740.42
18	Portland State University	736.99
19	University of California, Santa Barbara	736.02
20	Colby College	732.07
21	Stanford University	727.16
22	Chatham University	720.81
23	University of Pennsylvania	719.73
24	Appalachian State University	719.49
25	Emory University	718.67
26	University of Wisconsin–River Falls	716.03
27	University of Maryland, College Park	714.01
28	Duke University	713.87
29	Cornell University	713.11
30	Macalester College	708.39
31	California State University, Chico	705.73
32	George Washington University	704.39
33	University of Minnesota, Morris	703.63
34	University of the Pacific	702.44
35	University of Arizona	701.56
36	Pomona College	699.31
37	Grand Valley State University	691.39
38	Pennsylvania State University	690.50
39	Colgate University	688.42
40	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	687.42
41	Harvard University	685.69
42	Oregon State University	685.09
43	University of California, Los Angeles	684.44
44	University of California, Santa Cruz	680.32
45	University of Vermont	677.73
46	California State University, Channel Islands	675.99
47	University of Missouri (Mizzou)	675.62
48	Bard College	674.16
49	Rice University	671.75
50	Santa Clara University	670.79
51	Warren Wilson College	666.34
52	University of Colorado, Boulder	661.75
53	Hobart and William Smith Colleges	661.40
54	Furman University	660.94
55	Iowa State University	660.06
56	University of Florida	655.35
57	Vanderbilt University	650.03
58	Carnegie Mellon University	649.22
59	Colorado College	641.93
60	Hampshire College	641.63
61	Smith College	639.52
62	University of North Carolina at Greensboro	637.88
63	University of Colorado, Colorado Springs	637.50
64	Carleton College	633.73
65	University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point	627.04
66	Loyola Marymount University	626.62
67	Allegheny College	625.44
68	Unity College	624.24
69	Dartmouth College	624.05
70	University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee	619.67
71	Sterling College	619.17
72	Columbia University	619.06
73	University of Louisville	615.27
74	University of Wisconsin–Green Bay	615.00
75	University of Illinois at Chicago	613.02
76	University of Minnesota, Duluth	608.84
77	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	608.63
78	University of Pittsburgh	607.56
79	University of Missouri, Kansas City	606.19
80	Missouri State University	605.71
81	Wartburg College	602.58
82	Southern Oregon University	601.81
83	University of San Diego	601.60
84	Case Western Reserve University	599.84
85	Western Michigan University	599.44
86	Tufts University	597.23
87	Williams College	589.91
88	Texas A&M University	589.34
89	University of Massachusetts, Amherst	589.02
90	Babson College	588.84
91	University of Wisconsin–Whitewater	586.16
92	Champlain College	581.63
93	Brandeis University	579.01
94	Ohio University	578.73
95	Wesleyan University	577.35
96	Aquinas College	568.60
97	Occidental College	563.66
98	Elon University	559.06
99	Bucknell University	557.91
100	Saint Louis University	553.17
101	Frostburg State University	550.87
102	Saint John's University	549.35
103	The Evergreen State College	547.61
104	State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry	541.85
105	Muhlenberg College	538.18
106	Bentley University	536.28
107	University of North Dakota	533.56
108	Boston University	533.33
109	Washington State University, Pullman	530.43
110	Brown University	522.68
111	Oklahoma State University	521.76
112	Knox College	519.95
113	Villanova University	519.01
114	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	518.74
115	Washington University in St. Louis	517.68
116	Lehigh University	517.15
117	Plymouth State University	511.68
118	Gonzaga University	507.46
119	Mills College	502.56
120	University of Mount Union	500.93
121	Temple University	496.68
122	California State University, Fullerton	496.30
123	Miami University	491.78
124	Westminster College	490.96
125	Purdue University	484.69
126	Southern Connecticut State University	477.68
127	Randolph College	473.30
128	University of Dayton	472.60
129	Earlham College	467.72
130	Albion College	462.24
131	Spelman College	458.05
132	Mount Holyoke College	455.53
133	Baylor University	451.01
134	State University of New York at Fredonia	436.33
135	University of Nebraska–Lincoln	433.50
136	San Francisco State University	432.36
137	Creighton University	422.91
138	Weber State University	417.64
139	College of Charleston	404.12
140	Pacific Lutheran University	403.39
141	University of West Georgia	396.15
142	Kenyon College	391.53
143	Binghamton University	384.84
144	Kent State University	378.24
145	LIU Post	371.45
146	St. John's University	334.29
147	Belmont University	325.39
148	Drexel University	320.56
149	California College of the Arts	253.84
150	Wittenberg University	219.74
151	Eckerd College	205.62
152	Radford University	188.30
153	University of Texas at Dallas	147.24

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