Forbes Ranks Pennsylvania Colleges: See The Top 10

Forbes has released its rankings of the nation's top colleges, and in Pennsylvania, it looks very similar to a list recently released by Money Magazine. Both lists name the University of Pennsylvania as the state's best school, and four of the top five schools in both lists are the same.

Nationally, Harvard University is named as the best college on Forbes’ list. The 2018 list also 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.)

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Here are the top 10 Pennsylvania Schools that made the Forbes' list, as well as their national ranking:

• University of Pennsylvania (7)
• Swarthmore College (24)
• Haverford College (38)
• Carnegie Mellon University (42)
• Lafayette College (58)
• Lehigh University (67)
• Villanova (70)
• Bucknell University (73)
• Bryn Mawr College (77)
• Franklin and Marshall College (92)

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.

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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