Best Colleges for Men's Cross Country Recruiting 2026

28 colleges with Men's Cross Country programs, ranked by program strength using 2025-26 NCAA performance data.

Top Men's Cross Country Programs

1. 1. Oklahoma State University-Main Campus — Stillwater, OK (score 99)
2. 2. Iowa State University — Ames, IA (score 95)
3. 3. Syracuse University — Syracuse, NY (score 93)
4. 4. University of Oregon — Eugene, OR (score 92)
5. 5. Cornell College — Mount Vernon, IA (score 91)
6. 6. University of Virginia-Main Campus — Charlottesville, VA (score 90)
7. 7. University of Colorado Boulder — Boulder, CO (score 87)
8. 8. Brigham Young University — Provo, UT (score 85)
9. 9. Stanford University — Stanford, CA (score 84)
10. 10. University of Notre Dame — Notre Dame, IN (score 82)
11. 11. Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus — University Park, PA (score 80)
12. 12. University of Georgia — Athens, GA (score 78)
13. 13. The University of Tennessee-Knoxville — Knoxville, TN (score 76)
14. 14. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — Chapel Hill, NC (score 75)
15. 15. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign — Champaign, IL (score 74)
16. 16. University of Florida — Gainesville, FL (score 72)
17. 17. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor — Ann Arbor, MI (score 70)
18. 18. University of Arkansas — Fayetteville, AR (score 68)
19. 19. The University of Texas at Austin — Austin, TX (score 66)
20. 20. Wake Forest University — Winston-Salem, NC (score 65)
21. 21. Texas A&M University-College Station — College Station, TX (score 64)
22. 22. Ohio State University-Main Campus — Columbus, OH (score 62)
23. 23. Duke University — Durham, NC (score 60)
24. 24. Princeton University — Princeton, NJ (score 58)
25. 25. Harvard University — Cambridge, MA (score 56)
26. 26. Yale University — New Haven, CT (score 54)
27. 27. University of California-Los Angeles — Los Angeles, CA (score 52)
28. 28. University of Southern California — Los Angeles, CA (score 50)

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