Forbes: 68 New York Schools Make Top Colleges List

New college rankings from Forbes Magazine name 650 schools, including 68 in New York, that it says are the 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 New York colleges were ranked on Forbes’ list:

• 11: Cornell University
• 14: Columbia University
• 32: United States Military Academy
• 35: New York University
• 46: Colgate University
• 50: Barnard College
• 58: Cooper Union
• 59: Hamilton College
• 61: Vassar College
• 66: United States Merchant Marine Academy
• 82: University of Rochester
• 97: Yeshiva University
• 101: Skidmore College
• 104: Union College (NY)
• 113: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• 119: The Juilliard School
• 141: Fordham University
• 145: Binghamton University, SUNY
• 156: Syracuse University
• 157: Sarah Lawrence College
• 158: St. Lawrence University
• 163: Manhattan School of Music
• 174: CUNY, Baruch College
• 176: Stony Brook University, SUNY
• 189: Marist College
• 190: Hobart and William Smith Colleges
• 196: University at Buffalo (SUNY)
• 200: Manhattan College
• 207: Clarkson University
• 217: SUNY, College of Environmental Science and Forestry
• 230: Bard College
• 235: SUNY, Geneseo
• 243: Ithaca College
• 265: New School
• 274: CUNY, Queens College
• 285: Siena College
• 290: University at Albany, SUNY
• 292: Hofstra University
• 301: CUNY, Hunter College
• 328: Pratt Institute
• 330: St. Joseph's College (NY)
• 333: SUNY Maritime College
• 337: Rochester Institute of Technology
• 338: Wagner College
• 353: Adelphi University
• 354: SUNY, College at New Paltz
• 362: CUNY, Brooklyn College
• 374: Saint John Fisher College
• 383: Le Moyne College
• 390: Iona College
• 400: Pace University
• 407: St. John's University (NY)
• 411: CUNY, The City College of New York
• 450: SUNY, College at Oneonta
• 451: SUNY, Farmingdale State College
• 458: Canisius College
• 459: Houghton College
• 489: Touro College
• 490: CUNY, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
• 491: CUNY, Lehman College
• 512: Manhattanville College
• 551: CUNY, College of Staten Island
• 579: Hartwick College
• 580: Alfred University
• 586: Russell Sage College
• 625: St. Francis College
• 626: Elmira College
• 649: Wells College

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.)