04 August 2017
Forbes Releases 2017 College Rankings
Forbes released its list of top ranked colleges for 2017.
The Forbes ranking methodology is driven by student experiece (20%), post-graduate success (35%), student debt (20%), graduation rate (12.5%) and academic success (12.5%).
At the top of this year's list are:
- Harvard University
- Stanford University
- Yale University
- Princeton University
- MIT
- Caltech
- University of Pennsylvania
- Duke University
- Brown University
- Pomona College
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