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Here Are The Top Colleges In Michigan, According To Forbes Ranking: ICYMI

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Two Michigan schools made the top 100 in Forbes' 2016 college rankings, which put an emphasis on return on investment.

The University of Michigan was ranked 44th; Kalamazoo College was ranked 90.

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In all, 16 schools Michigan schools made the list, which included 660 schools nationwide. Of them, six made the top 200 and one made the top 300.

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Here are the Michigan schools that made the list, with their national ranking in parentheses:

  1. University of Michigan (44)
  2. Kalamazoo College (90)
  3. Michigan State University (149)
  4. Hope College (155)
  5. Calvin College (188)
  6. Hillsdale College (190)
  7. Albion College (262)
  8. Michigan Technological Institute (389)
  9. Oakland University (520)
  10. Grand Valley State University (539)
  11. Alma College (550)
  12. Wayne State University (565)
  13. Western Michigan University (581)
  14. Andrews University (610)
  15. Central Michigan University (635)
  16. Eastern Michigan University (653)

See the full list of Michigan 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


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