The Top Colleges In Massachusetts, According To Latest Forbes Ranking

They say the Bay State is known for its schools and hospitals.

Our excellence in hospitals, from overall safety to pediatrics, was reinforced in rankings earlier this year. Now it's the schools' turn to show off.

Eleven Massachusetts schools made the top 100 in Forbes' 2016 college rankings, just released. The rankings put an emphasis on return on investment.

Here are all 27 Massachusetts schools that made the list, which includes 660 schools nationwide, and their national ranking in parentheses:

1. Williams (2)
2. Harvard (4)
3. MIT (5)
4. Amherst (12)
5. Tufts (18)
6. Boston College (22)
7. Wellesley (32)
8. Holy Cross (51)
9. Smith (54)
10. Brandeis (74)
11. Boston University (79)
12. Mount Holyoke (102)
13. Babson (104)
14. Hampshire (151)
15. WPI (166)
16. Bentley (178)
17. Emerson (186)
18. Clark (188)
19. UMass (205)
20. Stonehill (212)
21. Northeastern (215)
22. Wheaton (240)
23. Simmons (298)
24. Gordon (332)
25. Merrimack (349)
26. UMass-Lowell (454)
27. UMass-Boston (525)

See the full list of Massachusetts colleges here

Forbes used data from the Department of Education, along with payscale.com and the America's Leaders List to compile the rankings on the top 660 schools. They rated each school on post-graduate success, student debt, student satisfaction, graduation rate and academic success.

Read Forbes' full methodology here

The top 10 schools nationwide were:

1. Stanford University
2. Williams College
3. Princeton University
4. Harvard University
5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6. Yale University
7. Pomona College
8. Brown University
9. Wesleyan University
10. Swarthmore College

See the full national rankings here

Photo of MIT's Maclaurin Building courtesy of InSapphoWeTrust via Flickr