University Of Pennsylvania is PA's Best College, WalletHub Says

PHILADELPHIA – Financial analysts at WalletHub recently took a look at the best colleges and universities in the country, and we have the breakdown of how Pennsylvania schools fared, including University of Pennsylvania, in their rankings.

WalletHub’s analysts compared nearly 1,000 higher-education institutions in the U.S. based on 26 key measures grouped into seven categories, such as student selectivity, cost and financing, and career outcomes.

The data set ranges from student-faculty ratio to graduation rate to post-attendance median salary.

You can see the full methodology and full results here.

So, when factoring all the metrics, UPenn is ranked Pennsylvania's best institution of higher learning.

According to WalletHub, Penn has the state's best admission rate, the best post-grad median salary, and the best student-faculty ratio.

Overall, the Philadelphia Ivy Leage school is the 8th best in the country, WalletHub says.

The top 10 PA's schools according to WalletHub are:

1. University of Pennsylvania
2. Swarthmore College
3. Carnegie Mellon University
4. Lehigh University
5. Lafayette College
6. Haverford College
7. Bucknell University
8. Bryn Mawr College
9. Villanova University
10. University of Pittsburgh

The best school in the country according to WalletHub? Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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