Editing Colorado College (section)

===Rankings===
{{Infobox US university ranking
| Forbes = 111
| USNWR_LA = 29
| Wamo_LA = 86
| THE_WSJ = 111
}}

In its 2025 edition, ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'' ranks Colorado College as tied for 29th best liberal arts college in the nation and 3rd most innovative national liberal arts colleges.<ref>{{Cite web |title=US News and World Report-- Colorado College Rankings |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/colorado-college-1347/overall-rankings}}</ref> The most innovative schools are those "making the most innovative improvements in terms of curriculum, faculty, students, campus life, technology or facilities".<ref>{{Cite magazine |year=2021 |title=Most Innovative Schools – National Liberal Arts Colleges |url=http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-liberal-arts-colleges/innovative |magazine=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=July 25, 2021 |archive-date=July 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210725062615/http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-liberal-arts-colleges/innovative |url-status=live }}</ref>

''[[Kiplinger's Personal Finance]]'' places Colorado College 16th in its 2017 ranking of best value liberal arts colleges in the United States.<ref name= "autogenerated1">{{Cite magazine |date=December 2017 |title=Kiplinger's Best College Values: College Rankings, 2017 |url=http://www.kiplinger.com/tool/college/T014-S001-kiplinger-s-best-values-in-private-colleges/index.php?table=lib_arts&state_code%5B%5D=ALL&id%5B%5D=none |magazine=Kiplinger's Personal Finance |access-date=August 4, 2013 |archive-date=May 18, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130518115307/http://www.kiplinger.com/tool/college/T014-S001-kiplinger-s-best-values-in-private-colleges/index.php?table=lib_arts&state_code%5B%5D=ALL&id%5B%5D=none |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2025, ''[[Forbes]]'' rated it 111th overall in "America's Top Colleges", which ranked 500 national universities, liberal arts colleges and service academies. <ref>{{Cite web |title=Colorado College Ranking and Profile |url=https://www.forbes.com/colleges/colorado-college/ |access-date=2025-02-13 |website=Forbes |language=en |archive-date=January 15, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250115183736/https://www.forbes.com/colleges/colorado-college/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

CC is one of six colleges in the western US included in the guidebook ''[[Hidden Ivies|The Hidden Ivies]]''.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Greene|first=Howard|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44509154|title=The hidden ivies : thirty colleges of excellence|date=2000|publisher=Cliff Street Books|isbn=0-06-095362-4|edition=|location=New York|pages=|oclc=44509154|access-date=January 21, 2021|archive-date=January 15, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230115193802/https://www.worldcat.org/title/44509154|url-status=live}}</ref>