The rankings are based on criteria including graduation rates, graduate salaries and outcomes for low-income students. Read more about its methodology here.
The top 25 colleges of 2023, per Forbes:
1. Princeton (N.J.) University
2. Yale University (New Haven, Conn.)
3. Stanford (Calif.) University
4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge)
5. University of California Berkeley
6. Columbia University (New York City)
7. University of California Los Angeles
8. University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)
9. Harvard University (Cambridge)
10. Williams College (Williamstown, Mass.)
11. Amherst (Mass.) College
12. Cornell University (Ithaca, N.Y.)
13. Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore)
14. University of Southern California (Los Angeles)
15. Brown University (Providence, R.I.)
16. Dartmouth College (Hanover, N.H.)
17. Duke University (Raleigh, N.C.)
18. Northwestern University (Chicago)
19. Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tenn.)
20. Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.)
21. University of California San Diego
22. Rice University (Houston)
23. University of Michigan Ann Arbor
24. University of California Santa Barbara
25. Swarthmore (Pa.) College
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