The data displays the best colleges in the U.S. in 2017, as ranked by Forbes. The top ranked university for that year was Harvard University in Massachusetts. Students are expected to pay tuition costs of 64,400 USD annually.
The Forbes rankings are based on five categories: post graduate success, student satisfaction, student debt, four year graduation rate and competitive awards.
Harvard University (Massachusetts) | 64400 | 46508 |
Stanford University (California) | 64477 | 43118 |
Yale University (Connecticut) | 66445 | 45806 |
Princeton University (New Jersey) | 61160 | 41764 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts) | 63250 | 39339 |
California Institute of Technology (California) | 63471 | 37777 |
University of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania) | 66800 | 40276 |
Duke University (North Carolina) | 66739 | 42704 |
Brown University (Rhode Island) | 65380 | 39737 |
Pomona College (California) | 64870 | 44209 |
Claremont McKenna College (California) | 66325 | 34321 |
Dartmouth College (New Hampshire) | 67044 | 43785 |
Williams College (Massachusetts) | 66240 | 42474 |
Columbia University (New York) | 69084 | 48926 |
Cornell University (New York) | 65494 | 34941 |
University of Chicago (Illinois) | 70100 | 34465 |
Amherst College (Massachusetts) | 66572 | 47145 |
Harvey Mudd College (California) | 69355 | 32098 |
Swarthmore College (Pennsylvania) | 64363 | 40870 |
United States Naval Academy (Maryland) | 0 | 0 |