Brown hits No. 8 on Forbes list of ‘Top Colleges’

BROWN UNIVERSITY waived application fees for low-income students starting with prospective students for fall 2018 / COURTESY BROWN UNIVERSITY
BROWN UNIVERSITY waived application fees for low-income students starting with prospective students for fall 2018 / COURTESY BROWN UNIVERSITY

PROVIDENCE – Brown University made it into the top 10 on Forbes’ list of America’s Top Colleges for 2015, released Thursday. The school’s 2015 showing is part of an upward trend over the last four years on the Forbes’ list, which came in at No. 13 last year, No. 12 in 2013 and No. 19 in 2012.
In a mini-profile of the school, Forbes noted that Brown “has the reputation as the most eccentric and liberal of the Ivies,” with no core curriculum requirements. Forbes also gave the institution an “A+” for financial health. The top 10 showing by Brown follows high rankings on other college and university lists within the last year, including placing:

  • No. 15 in the nation for return on investment over the 20 years following graduation by the 2015 PayScale College ROI Report
  • No. 16 on U.S. News and World Reports’s 2015 Best Colleges list
  • No. 19 on Money Magazine’s best overall school based on educational quality, affordability and career earnings
  • No. 19 on a list of the top 50 science research universities by Best College Reviews
  • No. 23 for the most powerful alumni network by Best College Values
  • No. 32 out of 736 colleges and universities ranked by Money Magazine for the best value for the money, using educational quality, affordability and career earnings as key metrics
    Forbes’ ranking of 650 school in the United States focuses on “output” versus “input,” the media outlet said. Thus while many traditional college rankings look at how difficult it is for a high school student to be admitted to a given school, using class rank, standardized test scores and other such metrics, the Forbes methodology, applied in partnership with the Washington-based Center for College Affordability and Productivity, looks at student satisfaction, graduation rates, debt after graduation and post-graduate success, among other data.
    Topping the list was Pomona College in Claremont, Calif., followed by Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., Princeton University in Princeton, N.J., and Yale University in New Haven, Conn. Rounding out the top 10 were Harvard University (No. 6), Swarthmore College (No. 7), Amherst College (No. 9) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (No. 10).
    Rankings for other schools in the region:

    • Providence College, No. 132
    • Wheaton College, No. 171
    • Stonehill College, No. 246
    • Bryant University, No. 282
    • Roger Williams University, No. 412
    • University of Rhode Island, No. 422
    • Rhode Island College, No. 547

    To see the full list, click HERE.

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