Best Colleges for Men's Lacrosse Recruiting 2026

23 colleges with Men's Lacrosse programs, ranked by program strength using 2025-26 NCAA performance data.

Top Men's Lacrosse Programs

1. 1. Syracuse University — Syracuse, NY (score 99)
2. 2. University of Maryland-College Park — College Park, MD (score 97)
3. 3. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — Chapel Hill, NC (score 96)
4. 4. Georgetown University — Washington, DC (score 95)
5. 5. Cornell University — Ithaca, NY (score 94)
6. 6. University of Notre Dame — Notre Dame, IN (score 93)
7. 7. Duke University — Durham, NC (score 92)
8. 8. Ohio State University-Main Campus — Columbus, OH (score 91)
9. 9. Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus — University Park, PA (score 90)
10. 10. Princeton University — Princeton, NJ (score 89)
11. 11. Johns Hopkins University — Baltimore, MD (score 88)
12. 12. Harvard University — Cambridge, MA (score 87)
13. 13. University of Virginia-Main Campus — Charlottesville, VA (score 86)
14. 14. Boston University — Boston, MA (score 84)
15. 15. Yale University — New Haven, CT (score 82)
16. 16. Brown University — Providence, RI (score 80)
17. 17. University of Pennsylvania — Philadelphia, PA (score 78)
18. 18. Northwestern University — Evanston, IL (score 76)
19. 19. Vanderbilt University — Nashville, TN (score 74)
20. 20. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor — Ann Arbor, MI (score 72)
21. 21. The University of Texas at Austin — Austin, TX (score 70)
22. 22. Stanford University — Stanford, CA (score 68)
23. 23. University of Southern California — Los Angeles, CA (score 65)

Full Men's Lacrosse recruiting rankings on PickACampus