Best Colleges for Men's Soccer Recruiting 2026

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

Top Men's Soccer Programs

1. 1. University of Washington-Seattle Campus — Seattle, WA (score 99)
2. 2. North Carolina State University at Raleigh — Raleigh, NC (score 97)
3. 3. Georgetown University — Washington, DC (score 95)
4. 4. Southern Methodist University — Dallas, TX (score 95)
5. 5. University of Maryland-College Park — College Park, MD (score 93)
6. 6. Princeton University — Princeton, NJ (score 92)
7. 7. Stanford University — Stanford, CA (score 90)
8. 8. Duke University — Durham, NC (score 90)
9. 9. Clemson University — Clemson, SC (score 90)
10. 10. Syracuse University — Syracuse, NY (score 90)
11. 11. University of California-Los Angeles — Los Angeles, CA (score 89)
12. 12. University of Virginia-Main Campus — Charlottesville, VA (score 89)
13. 13. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — Chapel Hill, NC (score 88)
14. 14. Indiana University-Bloomington — Bloomington, IN (score 88)
15. 15. University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus — Pittsburgh, PA (score 87)
16. 16. Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus — University Park, PA (score 86)
17. 17. West Virginia University — Morgantown, WV (score 85)
18. 18. Wake Forest University — Winston-Salem, NC (score 84)
19. 19. Vanderbilt University — Nashville, TN (score 83)
20. 20. Ohio State University-Main Campus — Columbus, OH (score 82)
21. 21. Cornell University — Ithaca, NY (score 80)
22. 22. The University of Texas at Austin — Austin, TX (score 80)
23. 23. Northwestern University — Evanston, IL (score 78)
24. 24. University of Southern California — Los Angeles, CA (score 78)
25. 25. University of California-Berkeley — Berkeley, CA (score 76)
26. 26. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor — Ann Arbor, MI (score 76)
27. 27. University of Notre Dame — Notre Dame, IN (score 75)
28. 28. University of Florida — Gainesville, FL (score 74)
29. 29. Yale University — New Haven, CT (score 72)
30. 30. Harvard University — Cambridge, MA (score 70)
31. 31. Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus — Atlanta, GA (score 68)
32. 32. Rice University — Houston, TX (score 65)
33. 33. New York University — New York, NY (score 60)

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