Two Alabama Schools Make Forbes Top 200 Colleges List

BIRMINGHAM, AL — New college rankings from Forbes Magazine name 650 schools, including some in Alabama that it says are the among the 200 best in the country for 2019.

Names like Harvard, Stanford and Yale predictably topped Forbes’ list. The magazine says that whether a school ranks among the top 10 or is closer to the bottom, the institutions “count as the best in the country.” Forbes’ annual rankings looks at colleges that “deliver the top academics, career success and lowest debt.”

Here’s how Alabama colleges were ranked on Forbes’ list:

• Auburn University, No. 166
• Samford University, No. 168
• University of Alabama, No. 262
• University of Alabama at Birmingham, No. 456
• Birmingham-Southern College, No. 463

The top 10 colleges on Forbes’ list are:

1. Harvard University
2. Stanford University
3. Yale University
4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5. Princeton University
6. University of Pennsylvania
7. Brown University
8. California Institute of Technology
9. Duke University
10. Dartmouth College

The methodology behind the rankings looks at five categories: alumni salary, student satisfaction, debt, on-time graduation rate and academic success. (Read more about Forbes’ methodology)