| 1955 Qualifications Results | |||
| Place | Team | Time | |
| 1 | Acacia | 2:35.9 | |
| 2 | North Hall Barons | 2:40.0 | |
| 3 | Sigma Nu | 2:40.2 | |
| 4 | Delta Chi | 2:42.2 | |
| 5 | Phi Gamma Delta | 2:42.5 | |
| 6 | Hickory Hall East | 2:42.7 | |
| 7 | Phi Delta Theta | 2:43.0 | |
| 8 | West Hall Trojans | 2:43.0 | |
| 9 | Zeta Beta Tau | 2:43.1 | |
| 10 | Sigma Alpha Epsilon | 2:44.9 | |
| 11 | Sigma Pi | 2:47.0 | |
| 12 | Sigma Phi Epsilon | 2:47.3 | |
| 13 | Phi Kappa Psi | 2:47.7 | |
| 14 | South Cottage Grove | 2:48.3 | |
| 15 | Hickory Hall West | 2:48.4 | |
| 16 | Dodds House | 2:49.2 | |
| 17 | Parks House | 2:49.3 | |
| 18 | Delta Tau Delta | 2:50.4 | |
| 19 | Lambda Chi Alpha | 2:50.5 | |
| 20 | Rollins House | 2:51.7 | |
| 21 | Kappa Delta Rho | 2:53.0 | |
| 22 | Sigma Alpha Mu | 2:54.0 | |
| 23 | Delta Upsilon | 2:54.2 | |
| 24 | Ruter House | 2:55.5 | |
| 25 | Phi Sigma Kappa | 2:56.2 | |
| 26 | Rogers "I" | 2:56.4 | |
| 27 | Phi Kappa | 2:57.0 | |
| 28 | Elliott House | 2:57.3 | |
| 29 | Kappa Sigma | 2:58.0 | |
| 30 | Theta Chi | 2:58.0 | |
| 31 | Pi Lambda Phi | 2:58.0 | |
| 32 | Alpha Tau Omega | 2:58.4 | |
| 33 | West Hall Saints | 2:59.2 | |