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2010 Cool Schools Questionnaire | Scoring Key | Methodology | Cool Schools Main

Sierra magazine's "Coolest Schools" list has been updated since it was originally posted on August 16. Due to in-house mathematical errors, some schools were erroneously scored on the original list. The most significant adjustments apply to St. Olaf College (now number 79), Kalamazoo College (now number 112), University of Texas at Arlington (now number 151), Sewanee: The University of the South (now number 82), Penn State University (now number 80), and Furman University (now number 40). Twelve other schools had minor adjustments to their scores.

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Rank	School	Energy Supply	Efficiency	Food	Academics	Purchasing	Transport	Waste	Admin	Investments	Other	Score
1	Green Mountain College	8.6	9	8.5	10	9	8	7	10	10	8.5	88.6
2	Dickinson College	7.6	8	6.5	8	10	8	9	9	10	10	86.1
3	Evergreen State College	7.9	10	7.5	7	10	6	9	9	10	9.5	85.9
4	University of Washington	7.7	8	5.5	10	10	9	9	9	7	9.5	84.7
5	Stanford University	5.1	7	7.5	9	8	9	10	9	10	10	84.6
6	University of California, Irvine	5.4	9	6	9	10	8	10	9	8	10	84.4
7	Northland College	6.2	10	9	10	7	8	8	9	7	9	83.2
8	Harvard University	3.8	9	6.5	9	9	10	7	9	10	9.5	82.8
9	College of the Atlantic	7	7	9.5	8	9	6	9	9	10	8	82.5
10	Hampshire College	3.9	10	8	8	10	7	8	8	10	9.5	82.4
11	University of California, Santa Cruz	9	7	7.5	10	10	7	10	10	2	9.5	82
11	Middlebury College	3.5	9	7.5	8	6	9	9	10	10	10	82
13	University of Colorado, Boulder	3.4	9	6.5	9	10	8	8	8	10	10	81.9
14	Warren Wilson College	8.3	8	7.5	10	9	8	8	10	3	10	81.8
15	University of California San Diego	5.1	9	7.5	9	9	7	8	9	8	10	81.6
16	University of California, Davis	4.2	7	7	9	10	8	10	9	7	10	81.2
16	University of Vermont	3.2	10	6	9	10	7	7	9	10	10	81.2
18	Georgia Tech	3	10	7.5	10	10	7	9	8	7	9.5	81
19	University of Pennsylvania	6.2	7	7.5	9	8	8	6	9	10	10	80.7
20	New York University	4.6	9	6	9	9	10	8	10	5	10	80.6
21	Cornell University	4.7	8	4.5	9	9	8	8	9	10	10	80.2
22	Colorado College	3.3	7	8	8	10	7	9	9	8	10	79.3
23	Pomona College	4.2	8	8	7	8	10	8	8	8	9.5	78.7
24	Oberlin College	2.6	9	6.5	7	10	8	7	9	10	9.5	78.6
24	Oregon State University	7.6	6	6	8	7	8	8	10	8	10	78.6
26	Portland State University	8.2	7	6	9	9	10	6	8	5	9.5	77.7
27	University of California, Los Angeles	5.1	7	5.5	8	10	8	10	9	5	10	77.6
28	Yale University	4.4	6	8.5	8	8	8	7	9	10	8.5	77.4
29	Princeton University	4.1	6	8	9	9	7	8	9	7	10	77.1
30	Smith College	4.4	7	8	8	7	8	7	10	8	9.5	76.9
31	University of California, Berkeley	5.8	5	8.5	9	8	9	10	8	3	10	76.3
32	University of New Hampshire	4.9	6	5.5	10	9	5	7	9	10	9.5	75.9
33	Arizona State University	3.8	8	8.5	10	10	6	5	9	5	9.5	74.8
34	Marlboro College	2.6	10	8.5	8	8	7	6	5	10	9.5	74.6
35	University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh	3.5	9	6.5	8	9	6	8	10	5	9.5	74.5
36	Brown University	4.7	7	8.5	7	6	9	6	10	7	9	74.2
37	Macalester College	3	6	7	7	8	7	9	7	10	10	74
38	University of California, Merced	5.3	9	5	6	10	7	8	8	7	8	73.3
38	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	3.3	6	8	9	7	9	8	8	5	10	73.3
40	Furman University	2	10	8.5	8	8	6	6	8	7	9.5	73
40	Colorado State University	3.5	6	4.5	10	5	7	9	8	10	10	73
42	Emory University	2	7	6	8	8	9	8	8	7	9.5	72.5
43	Washington University in St. Louis	2.3	9	6.5	8	5	9	6	10	8	8.5	72.3
44	University of California, Santa Barbara	4.2	8	8.5	7	9	8	8	10	0	9.5	72.2
45	SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry	3.6	6	4	10	5	6.5	7	10	10	10	72.1
46	Bowdoin College	9	6	7.5	7	9	7	7	10	0	9.5	72
46	University of Michigan	3.5	7	6.5	9	6	8	6	9	7	10	72
48	Western Washington University	8	3	6	7	10	8	7	8	5	9	71
49	University of Connecticut	4.9	6	6.5	9	6	7	6	8	8	9.5	70.9
50	Boston University	2.6	6	8.5	10	6	8	6	7	7	9.5	70.6
51	Wellesley College	5	8	8	6	1	7	8	10	8	9.5	70.5
51	Willamette University	4	7	8	8	8	7	6	8	5	9.5	70.5
53	Villanova University	1.4	6	7.5	9	9	6	5	7	10	9.5	70.4
54	Duke University	1.8	8	5.5	9	5	7	6	9	8	10	69.3
54	Pacific Lutheran University	7.8	9	6	5	5	7	10	8	2	9.5	69.3
56	DePaul University	1.9	8	7	6	9	10	7	6	5	9	68.9
57	George Washington University	2.3	5	8	9	5	9	6	8	7	9.5	68.8
58	Naropa University	8.2	5	7.5	6	5	7	10	6	8	6	68.7
59	Seattle University	8	6	6.5	5	4	9	7	6	8	9	68.5
60	Williams College	5.2	6	4	6	6	7	6	10	10	8	68.2
61	University of Louisville	1	7	4.5	8	8	5	8	9	8	9.5	68
62	Northern Arizona University	3.3	9	7	10	5	5	8	9	2	9.5	67.8
63	Bard College	3.2	6	7.5	7	9	4	7	5	10	8.5	67.2
64	Carnegie Mellon	6.5	4	6	7	9	7	7	7	5	8.5	67
65	Sterling College	2.3	8	10	10	6	6	10	3	2	9.5	66.8
66	Dartmouth College	4.2	7	5	7	6	8	6	7	8	8.5	66.7
66	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	4.2	6	5.5	9	8	7	7	9	2	9	66.7
68	Binghamton University	3.5	8	6.5	7	8	6	8	9	2	8.5	66.5
69	University of La Verne	4.3	8	7.5	8	7	6	9	3	6	7.5	66.3
69	San Francisco State University	4.3	7	6.5	6	4	9	9	9	5	6.5	66.3
71	Rochester Institute of Technology	2.6	6	4.5	9	8	5	6	8	7	10	66.1
71	Whitman College	5.6	7	8	8	6	6	6	5	5	9.5	66.1
73	Colby College	6.1	10	5.5	7	4	6	7	10	0	10	65.6
74	Case Western Reserve University	0.4	5	7.5	8	8	6	6	8	7	9.5	65.4
74	Point Loma Nazarene University	4.4	4	7	8	8	7	10	8	0	9	65.4
76	Western State College of Colorado	3.7	7	6	8	5	6	7	7	5	10	64.7
77	Lewis & Clark College	3.2	8	8.5	8	4	8	8	8	0	8.5	64.2
78	Swarthmore College	4.6	5	7.5	7	2	7	7	5	10	9	64.1
79	St. Olaf College	4	7	7	7	6	6	5	6	7	9	64
80	Penn State University	1.8	7	5.5	7	7	7	7	10	2	9.5	63.8
81	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	3.5	7	6.5	8	4	7	7	7	5	8.5	63.5
82	Sewanee: The University of the South	2.4	10	7	8	2	7	5	8	7	7	63.4
83	Humboldt State University	5.2	6	7	9	4	8	7	7	2	8	63.2
84	Drexel University	4.9	5	9	7	8	6	6	8	0	9	62.9
84	University of Florida	2.4	7	6	9	5	8	6	8	2	9.5	62.9
84	Mills College	4.9	6	8.5	7	4	6	10	7	0	9.5	62.9
87	Elon University	1.8	8	5.5	7	4	5	7	9	6	9.5	62.8
87	Hamilton College	3.8	6	7.5	6	9	7	5	9	0	9.5	62.8
89	University of Idaho	7.1	8	4	9	4	6	5	9	2	8.5	62.6
90	Amherst College	6	4	5.5	6	2	6.5	6	8	10	8.5	62.5
91	Appalachian State University	2	6	6	9	7	5	6	9	2	10	62
92	Metropolitan State College of Denver	9.9	7	8	6	9	6	5	6	2	2.5	61.4
93	Hobart and William Smith Colleges	2.4	5	5	7	6	7	8	7	5	8.5	60.9
94	Allegheny College	2.9	5	7.5	8	5	7	8	8	2	7	60.4
95	University of Missouri-Kansas City	2.8	6	6	9	6	3	8	8	3	8.5	60.3
96	Central Michigan University	5	9	6.5	6	7	5	6	7	2	6.5	60
97	University of Georgia	1.4	4	4	10	7	7	5	7	5	9.5	59.9
98	Bentley University	1.7	8	6.5	7	6	5	4	8	6	7.5	59.7
99	Southern Oregon University	10	7	4	5	8	5	2	9	2	7.5	59.5
100	Knox College	3.6	9	7	7	4	6	5	9	0	8.5	59.1
100	Montclair State University	4.1	3	5.5	7	6	8	8	8	2	7.5	59.1
102	Augsburg College	7	5	7.5	7	4	4	10	8	0	6.5	59
103	University of San Diego	4.1	8	6.5	7	3	6	3	7	7	7	58.6
104	Grinnell College	2.5	5	7	5	2	6	8	7	10	6	58.5
105	Seattle Pacific University	8.5	6	4.5	7	3	7	7	9	0	6	58
106	Lawrence University	2.5	7	7.5	6	4	6	7	8	0	9.5	57.5
107	State University of New York at Stony Brook	5.1	5	6.5	9	5	6	6	8	0	6.5	57.1
108	Vassar College	3	5	5	5	8	6	5	5	10	5	57
108	Chatham University	2	7	6.5	6	7	4	7	8	2	7.5	57
108	Fairfield University	3.5	3	6.5	7	8	4	7	8	2	8	57
111	St. Lawrence University	4.2	6	8.5	8	2	5	5	9	0	9	56.7
112	Kalamazoo College	2.4	7	4.5	4	6	4	9	9	2	8	55.9
113	University of Dayton	2.1	7	4.5	8	2	6	7	6	8	5	55.6
114	Champlain College	4.8	7	5.5	3	6	7	7	7	0	8	55.3
115	Northwestern University	3.6	7	5	7	6	8	3	4	5	6.5	55.1
116	Goucher College	5	7	8	5	4	3	6	8	0	9	55
117	University of the Pacific	4.9	8	8	6	5	4.5	9	4	0	5.5	54.9
118	University of Missouri	3.2	6	4	9	5	4	5	8	2	8.5	54.7
119	University of Richmond	1.6	5	3	6	5	6	7	8	5	8	54.6
120	Syracuse University	3	6	5	5	7	5.5	5	8	3	6	53.5
121	University of Nevada, Reno	3.6	5	3.5	9	6	4	6	7	2	7	53.1
122	Franklin Pierce University	2.7	6	7	8	2	5	5	8	0	8.5	52.2
123	Keene State College	1.6	7	4	5	6	4	6	8	2	8.5	52.1
124	University of Southern California	3.7	5	2	9	0	8.5	5	4	5	9.5	51.7
125	Radford University	2.7	8	4	5	5	5.5	6	7	0	8	51.2
126	State University of New York at Albany	3.3	8	5.5	7	4	6	4	6	0	7	50.8
127	Miami University (Ohio)	0.2	6	5.5	7	5	5.5	4	5	5	7	50.2
127	University of Kansas	2.2	4	6	6	1	7	3	4	7	10	50.2
129	State University of New York at Buffalo	3.2	5	3.5	6	5	3	6	10	0	8	49.7
130	Pepperdine University	3.4	6	3	8	1	5	9	5	2	7	49.4
131	University of St. Thomas	3.3	7	4.5	7	4	7	4	7	0	5	48.8
132	Ohio University	0.9	3	4	7	1	2.5	6	9	5	9.5	47.9
133	Washington & Lee University	2.3	3	5.5	8	5	6	4	8	0	6	47.8
133	University of Illinois at Chicago	4.3	4	4.5	6	3	8	3	8	2	5	47.8
135	University of Massachusetts, Amherst	2.9	4	7.5	8	3	4	8	7	0	3	47.4
136	California State University, San Bernardino	4.3	5	5	7	0	4	6	7	0	9	47.3
137	Centre College	2.2	8	3	3	4	6	4	8	0	9	47.2
138	Loyola Marymount University	4.1	5	5.5	5	3	3.5	6	7	0	8	47.1
139	Austin College	3.7	6	4	7	3	3	6	6	0	8	46.7
140	Creighton University	2	5	3.5	7	5	6	5	3	0	10	46.5
141	Washington State University	5.9	6	4	6	2	2	8	7	2	3.5	46.4
142	University of Wisconsin, Stout	1.1	4	3.5	4	7	4	5	8	2	7	45.6
143	Southern Illinois University Carbondale	0.5	6	8	7	4	6	4	2	0	7.5	45
144	Marist College	2	7	4	3	6	3.5	10	2	0	7	44.5
145	Adelphi University	8.4	3	8	8	1	4	3	1	0	8	44.4
146	Trinity College (CT)	5	4	4	5	5	4	6	6	0	4	43
147	Winthrop University	1.7	5	6	7	3	2.5	4	5	0	8.5	42.7
148	University of Colorado, Denver	3.2	4	0	3	6	6	3	8	7	2	42.2
149	Occidental College	2	7	7	4	2	7	4	2	0	7	42
150	Baylor University	2.8	4	7.5	3	8	4	5	3	0	4.5	41.8
151	University of Texas at Arlington	3.2	5	5	5	4	2.5	5	5	0	7	41.7
152	New Mexico State University, Las Cruces	4.4	4	4	8	0	2.5	3	6	2	7.5	41.4
153	Daemen College	4.3	6	6	4	3	3	5	1	0	9	41.3
154	Kent State University	4.5	5	5	6	0	5	4	5	0	6	40.5
155	Kenyon College	2.2	4	6.5	3	4	3	7	6	2	2	39.7
156	College of Wooster	1.1	3	5	4	4	5	7	3	0	7.5	39.6
157	Wilson College	2.1	2	4.5	7	0	3	4	8	0	8.5	39.1
158	University of Maryland, Baltimore County	3.3	4	0	7	2	8	3	6	2	3.5	38.8
159	Wells College	1.7	3	4.5	6	1	3	3	7	2	4.5	35.7
160	Baldwin-Wallace College	2.6	2	5.5	5	4	3	4	3	0	6	35.1
161	Northwest Missouri State University	3.4	5	6	3	3	3.5	3	0	2	6	34.9
162	Wartburg College	2.3	5	3.5	4	0	4	3	3	0	6.5	31.3