The magazine Business Insider included Fort Lewis College in its “Complete Ranking of America’s 501 Smartest Colleges.” The rankings were based on students’ average combined score on the math and verbal sections of the SAT. FLC tied with eight schools for the 419th slot, with an average SAT score of 1010 out of a possible 1600 points.

FLC scored better than many prominent schools, including Texas A&M University Corpus-Christi (453) and its Grand Junction neighbor Colorado Mesa University (460). Public colleges in Colorado also did well, including Colorado School of Mines (83), University of Colorado-Boulder (174), and Colorado State University (258).

First place went to the California Institute of Technology, which boasts an average SAT score of 1535, with Princeton, Harvard and Yale universities sharing second place with average SAT scores of 1500.

Herald Staff