The NCAA released its Academic Progress Report last week, and it should obviously come as no surprise that the Ivy League dominated the rankings. However, the order might be different from what you would expect.

The Ivies swept the top six spots on the national rankings, in the following order.

1. Yale (28 teams honored)

2. Dartmouth (24 teams honored)

3. Brown (21 teams honored)

4. Penn (20 teams honored)

5. Princeton (19 teams honored)

6. Harvard (18 teams honored)

Then, there’s a bit of a drop off…

t16. Cornell (11 sports honored)

20. Columbia (9 sports honored)

Of course, you have to take the report with a grain of salt, as a lot of the rankings depend on the number of sports a school has and fail to take into account understandable reasons for GPA differences (engineering major vs. history major; Engineering vs. Wharton vs. College, Hotel Management vs. School of Agriculture, etc.). The Academic Progress Report really serves no purpose for the Ivy League — the goal is to improve the LSU’s of the world — but it’s still interesting either way.

If you want to peruse Penn’s report, you can find the link here.

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