Hofstra And Adelphi Universities Make Forbes’ Top Colleges List

Forbes' just released its list of the top colleges in the United States, and Long Island's own Hofstra and Adelphi universities made the list. The 2018 list released this week saw the standard names of Harvard, Yale, Stanford, MIT and Princeton round out the top five spots.

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.)

Hofstra came in at No. 284 in the country, and Adelphi was ranked 344.

Here are the New York schools that made Forbes’ list:

• No. 13 Cornell University
• No. 15 Columbia University
• No. 27 United States Military Academy
• No. 45 Colgate University
• No. 48 New York University
• No. 51 Vassar College
• No. 53 Cooper Union
• No. 57 Barnard College
• No. 60 Hamilton College
• No. 71 United States Merchant Marine Academy
• No. 83 University of Rochester
• No. 99 Yeshiva University
• No. 101 Union College (NY)
• No. 111 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• No. 123 Binghamton University, SUNY
• No. 133 Sarah Lawrence College
• No. 148 Fordham University
• No. 157 St. Lawrence University
• No. 165 Syracuse University
• No. 167 SUNY, Geneseo
• No. 173 Hobart and William Smith Colleges
• No. 178 CUNY, Baruch College
• No. 182 Stony Brook University, SUNY
• No. 188 Clarkson University
• No. 189 University at Buffalo (SUNY)
• No. 201 Bard College
• No. 207 Manhattan College
• No. 214 Ithaca College
• No. 235 Marist College
• No. 260 New School
• No. 267 Siena College
• No. 273 CUNY, Queens College
• No. 284 Hofstra University
• No. 296 University at Albany, SUNY
• No. 303 CUNY, Hunter College
• No. 312 SUNY, College of Environmental Science and Forestry
• No. 315 SUNY Maritime College
• No. 332 SUNY, College at New Paltz
• No. 333 CUNY, Brooklyn College
• No. 344 Adelphi University
• No. 354 Wagner College
• No. 365 Rochester Institute of Technology
• No. 366 Le Moyne College
• No. 372 Iona College
• No. 390 Saint John Fisher College
• No. 395 Pace University
• No. 396 The City College of New York
• No. 400 Houghton College
• No. 401 St. Joseph's College (NY)
• No. 402 St. John's University (NY)
• No. 408 Pratt Institute
• No. 423 Canisius College
• No. 430 SUNY, College at Oneonta
• No. 456 CUNY, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
• No. 464 Manhattanville College
• No. 466 SUNY, Farmingdale State College
• No. 499 Touro College
• No. 504 CUNY, College of Staten Island
• No. 505 CUNY, Lehman College
• No. 541 Hartwick College
• No. 562 Alfred University
• No. 578 St. Francis College
• No. 595 Elmira College

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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.

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

• Harvard University (No. 1)
• Yale University (No. 2)
• Stanford University (No. 3)
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (No. 4)
• Princeton University (No. 5)
• California Institute of Technology (No. 6)
• University of Pennsylvania (No. 7)
• Brown University (No. 8)
• Dartmouth College (No. 9)
• Duke University (No. 10)

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

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

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