Davidson College, a private, liberal arts school tucked away north of Charlotte, has earned the ‘Top School in the South’ title in Forbes’ updated Top 25 rankings for 2015.

Fifteen of the Top 25 schools in the South are private, including four of the top five.

Vanderbilt, the most prestigious school academically in the SEC, comes in at No. 8, just behind North Carolina. Three more SEC schools made the list — Florida (8), Georgia (16) and Texas A&M (25).

The state of Virginia has six of the Top 25 colleges in the South, the most of any other state in the region, according to Forbes.

SEC schools located within Forbes’ ‘Top 25 Southern Schools’

  • 8. Vanderbilt
  • 13. Florida
  • 16. Georgia
  • 25. Texas A&M

You can view the full Top 25, here.