School & program debate rankings
College program standings and high school state champions, taken from published results and cited line by line. Open methodology, no student names. Individual-entry rankings are coming as coaches submit results.
9 published sources, 155 schools, updated 2026-10-17.
College parliamentary: NPDA season standings 2024-25
Details| # | School | sweepstakes points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rice University | 115 |
| 2 | University of California, San Diego | 113.75 |
| 3 | University of California, Berkeley | 113 |
| 4 | Point Loma Nazarene University | 96.5 |
| 5 | El Camino College | 94.25 |
| 6 | University of Utah | 77 |
| 7 | University of the Pacific | 75.75 |
| 8 | Concordia University Irvine | 74.25 |
| 9 | Whitman College | 67 |
| 10 | Irvine Valley College | 65.5 |
Source: National Parliamentary Debate Association, https://npdadebate.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/NPDA-2025-Awards.pdf. Retrieved 2026-10-17. Published NPDA 2025 awards document.
College policy: NDT program rankings 2017-18 historical
All 68| # | School | NDT points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Liberty University | 560 |
| 2 | George Mason University | 538 |
| 3 | Harvard | 529 |
| 4 | University of Kansas | 509 |
| 5 | Wake Forest University | 486 |
| 6 | Binghamton University | 469 |
| 7 | Northwestern University | 458 |
| 8 | UNLV | 455 |
| 9 | Cornell | 444 |
| 10 | University of Iowa | 439 |
Source: National Debate Tournament, https://nationaldebatetournament.org/download/74/points-reports/2893/2017-18-ndt-points-standings-spring. Retrieved 2026-10-17. HISTORICAL. The newest NDT report with machine-readable text that we could find. Newer reports (2018-19, 2019-20) publish their tables as images and are not used.
High school state champions: Texas UIL CX 2025
Details| Honor | Category | School |
|---|---|---|
| State champion | CX Debate, Conference 1A | Sanderson |
| State champion | CX Debate, Conference 2A | Ore City |
| State champion | CX Debate, Conference 3A | Grandview |
| State champion | CX Debate, Conference 4A | Athens |
| State champion | CX Debate, Conference 5A | Dallas Highland Park |
| State champion | CX Debate, Conference 6A | Princeton |
Source: University Interscholastic League (Texas), https://www.uiltexas.org/speech/debate/2025-cx-debate-results. Retrieved 2026-10-17. State meet placings, by conference. UIL does not rank schools overall in debate, so we list placings, not a rank.
High school state sweepstakes: Iowa IHSSA 2025-26
DetailsSource: Iowa High School Speech Association, https://www.ihssa.org/UserDocs/pages/sweepstakes_tab_2026.dmacc.pdf. Retrieved 2026-10-17. Order from the IHSSA sweepstakes tabulation PDF. Placement only.
Event champions: Lincoln Douglas: West Des Moines Valley · Policy: Iowa City City · Public Forum Galligan: Grinnell · Public Forum Riggleman: Iowa City West · Student Congress: Burlington
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