These North Carolina Schools Make Forbes’ Top Colleges List

Harvard University in once again No.1 on Forbes’ list of top colleges in the United States. The 2018 list released this week saw the standard names; 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.)

Here are the North Carolina schools that made Forbes’ list:

Duke University (No. 10)
Davidson College (No. 41)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (No. 47)
Wake Forest University (No. 62)
North Carolina State University, Raleigh (No. 141)
Elon University (No. 142)
Appalachian State University (No. 318)
University of North Carolina, Wilmington (No. 364)
High Point University (No. 474)
University of North Carolina, Charlotte (No. 480)
East Carolina University (No. 481)
University of North Carolina, Asheville (No. 487)
Queens University of Charlotte (No. 530)
Meredith College (No. 534)
University of North Carolina, Greensboro (No.550)
Salem College (No. 584)
Warren Wilson College (No. 587)
Guilford College (No. 630)
Catawba College (No. 645)

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.

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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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