Best Colleges for Women's Soccer Recruiting 2026

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

Top Women's Soccer Programs

1. 1. Florida State University — Tallahassee, FL (score 99)
2. 2. Stanford University — Stanford, CA (score 97)
3. 3. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — Chapel Hill, NC (score 94)
4. 4. University of California-Los Angeles — Los Angeles, CA (score 93)
5. 5. Duke University — Durham, NC (score 92)
6. 6. University of Virginia-Main Campus — Charlottesville, VA (score 91)
7. 7. University of Notre Dame — Notre Dame, IN (score 90)
8. 8. Georgetown University — Washington, DC (score 89)
9. 9. University of Southern California — Los Angeles, CA (score 88)
10. 10. University of Florida — Gainesville, FL (score 87)
11. 11. Clemson University — Clemson, SC (score 86)
12. 12. University of Maryland-College Park — College Park, MD (score 85)
13. 13. Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus — University Park, PA (score 84)
14. 14. The University of Texas at Austin — Austin, TX (score 83)
15. 15. University of Washington-Seattle Campus — Seattle, WA (score 82)
16. 16. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor — Ann Arbor, MI (score 81)
17. 17. Princeton University — Princeton, NJ (score 80)
18. 18. Cornell University — Ithaca, NY (score 78)
19. 19. Vanderbilt University — Nashville, TN (score 76)
20. 20. University of California-Berkeley — Berkeley, CA (score 75)
21. 21. Northwestern University — Evanston, IL (score 74)
22. 22. Ohio State University-Main Campus — Columbus, OH (score 72)
23. 23. Syracuse University — Syracuse, NY (score 70)
24. 24. Texas A&M University-College Station — College Station, TX (score 68)
25. 25. Yale University — New Haven, CT (score 66)
26. 26. Harvard University — Cambridge, MA (score 64)
27. 27. Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus — Atlanta, GA (score 62)

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