Best Colleges In New Hampshire 2018: Forbes

Harvard is once again No. 1 on Forbes’ list of top colleges in the United States in 2018. New Hampshire's Ivy League school, Dartmouth, also made the top 10, and two other Granite State schools followed on the list released this week.

This list pairs nicely with one earlier this month by Money Magazine that ranked colleges for best value. Dartmouth topped that list in New Hampshire as well.

Here are the New Hampshire schools that made Forbes’ list this week, along with cost:

• 9. Darmouth, $71,827
• 258. UNH, $47,570
• 313. St. Anselm, $56,846

>You can see the full list of Forbes’ top colleges 2018 list here.

The overall list saw the usual suspects. Yale, Stanford, MIT and Princeton joined Harvard in the top five.

Forbes says that its list values “outputs” more than “inputs.” The methodology explains that rather than measures like SAT scores and acceptance rates, it looks at things like alumni salaries, college debt and retention and graduation rates. (You can read the full methodology here.)

Here are the top 10 colleges in the United States, according to Forbes:

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

>You can see Forbes’ full report on 2018’s top colleges here.

Forbes noted the strong showing California colleges made on its list, highlighting the University of California, Berkeley, which went up 15 spots from last year to No. 14. Forbes said it was the first time a state school was that high on its list.

The magazine also gave a shout out to Purdue University for reforms that have reduced the cost of attending the college and doubled its undergraduate enrollment.

Feroze Dhanoa, Patch, contributed to this report.

(Photo at Harvard by Glen Cooper/Getty Images)