Forbes: 29 Ohio Schools Make Top Colleges List

New college rankings from Forbes Magazine name 650 schools, including 29 in Ohio 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 Ohio colleges were ranked on Forbes’ list:

• Kenyon College - 71
• Oberlin College - 85
• Case Western Reserve University - 100
• The Ohio State University - 121
• Denison University - 153
• University of Dayton - 165
• Miami University (OH) - 185
• Cedarville University - 237
• College Wooster - 250
• John Carroll University - 287
• Ohio Northern University - 302
• University of Cincinnati - 313
• Franciscan University of Steubenville - 317
• Xavier University - 325
• Ohio University - 438
• Ohio Wesleyan University - 462
• Wittenberg University - 470
• Ashland University - 495
• Baldwin Wallace University - 527
• Otterbein University - 528
• Marietta College - 536
• Capital University - 584
• Bowling Green State University - 591
• University of Mount Union - 593
• University of Toledo - 609
• Cleveland State University - 622
• Kent State University -630
• Wright State University - 638
• Hiram College 639

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)