Princeton Review's 2018 rankings. The college was ranked as the public college with the smartest students in the nation according to Business Insider's 2014 survey.
In 2025, Forbes recognized W&M as one of the ten public universities featured on its “New Ivies” list.
The undergraduate business program was ranked 12th among undergraduate programs by the 2016 Bloomberg Businessweek survey. In 2020, W&M was ranked 4th for "Colleges with the Happiest Students" by The Princeton Review and 9th in a list of the public universities that "pay off the most", according to CNBC. In 2022, the Center on Education and the Workforce at Georgetown University ranked William & Mary's undergraduate business program #21 in value nationally. In 2025, Poets & Quants ranked William & Mary's undergraduate business program #20 nationally.
=== Publications ===
The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture publishes William and Mary Quarterly, a scholarly journal focusing on colonial history, particularly in North America …
