Aug 2 - FORBES: America's Top Colleges for 2012

http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml

The heights of higher education

College is outrageously expensive. Four years at an elite, private school such as the University of Chicago or Stanford costs more than a quarter of a million dollars. A degree from a more-affordable state school, like the College of William & Mary or the University of California, Berkeley, still costs around $100,000, even for in-state students, who pay less in tuition.

Is it worth it? For many students, the answer is probably not -- unless they are accomplished enough to be accepted by one of the schools ranked near the top of Forbes' annual list of America's 650 Top Colleges.
The rankings, which are compiled exclusively for Forbes by the Washington, D.C.-based Center for College Affordability and Productivity, focus on the things that matter the most to students: quality of teaching, great career prospects, high graduation rates and low levels of debt. They do not attempt to[..]ess a school's reputation, nor are they a measure of academic selectivity, and we pointedly ignore any metrics that would encourage schools to engage in wasteful spending.

The rankings are based on five general categories: postgraduate success (32.5%), which evaluates alumni pay and prominence; student satisfaction (27.5%), which includes professor evaluations and freshman- to sophomore-year retention rates; debt (17.5%), which penalizes schools for high student debt loads and default rates; four-year graduation rate (11.25%); and competitive awards (11.25%), which rewards schools whose students win prestigious scholarships and fellowships like the Rhodes, Marshall and Fulbright or go on to earn Ph.D's.


No. 1: Princeton University


Student population: 7,813
Undergraduate population: 5,203
Student-to-faculty ratio: 6-to-1
Total annual cost: $53,934
Tuition: $37,865
Students receiving financial aid: 60%
Percent admitted: 8
SAT composite range: 1410

No. 2: Williams College


Student population: 2,126
Undergraduate population: 2,070
Student-to-faculty ratio: 7-to-1
Total annual cost: $57,141
Tuition: $43,190
Students receiving financial aid: 68%
Percent admitted: 19
SAT composite range: 1310

No. 3: Stanford University


Student population: 19,945
Undergraduate population: 6,988
Student-to-faculty ratio: 12-to-1
Total annual cost: $57,755
Tuition: $41,564
Percent on financial aid: 72%
Percent admitted: 7
SAT composite range: 1360

No. 4: The University of Chicago

Student population: 14,979
Undergraduate population: 5,402
Student-to-faculty ratio: 6-to-1
Total annual cost: $59,950
Tuition: $43,780
Students receiving financial aid: 70%
Percent admitted: 16
SAT composite range: 1400

No. 5: Yale University

Student population: 11,875
Undergraduate population: 5,349
Student-to-faculty ratio: 5-to-1
Total annual cost: $58,250
Tuition: $40,500
Students receiving financial aid: 66%
Percent admitted: 8
SAT composite range: 1410

No. 6: Harvard University

Student population: 27,392
Undergraduate population: 10,305
Student-to-faculty ratio: 7-to-1
Total annual cost: $56,000
Tuition: $39,851
Students receiving financial aid: 81%
Percent admitted: 6
SAT composite range: 1390

No. 7: US Military Academy

Student population: 4,624
Undergraduate population: 4,624
Student-to-faculty ratio: 8-to-1
Total annual cost: $0*
Tuition: $0*
Out-of-state tuition: $0*
Students receiving financial aid: 0%*
Percent admitted: 11
SAT composite range: 1150

No. 8: Columbia University
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Student population: 26,050
Undergraduate population: 8,127
Student-to-faculty ratio: 6-to-1
Total annual cost: $59,208
Tuition: $45,290
Students receiving financial aid: 61%
Percent admitted: 10
SAT composite range: 1390


No. 9: Pomona College
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Student population: 1,586
Undergraduate population: 1,586
Student-to-faculty ratio: 8-to-1
Total annual cost: $55,319
Tuition: $39,883
Students receiving financial aid: 66%
Percent admitted: 14
SAT composite range: 1370

No. 10: Swarthmore College
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Student population: 1,545
Undergraduate population: 1,545
Student-to-faculty ratio: 8-to-1
Total annual cost: $55,895
Tuition: $41,150
Students receiving financial aid: 61%
Percent admitted: 15
SAT composite range: 1350 (This number represents the 25th percentile for reading and math scores.)



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where's rowan?

[pic] 561? we should be way higher

#268....my school is underrated

#57 [pic]

449 [pic]

lol the wack[..] school i go to is 518, the schools i got accepted to but couldnt afford are 151 and 97 [pic]

...#271 huh...oh well

230 [pic] We should be way higher

I shoulda been at 37 [pic]

Expensive bastuds

Percent admitted: 6

harvard

lowest one...real list

probably fraudulent list tho


nyu is ranked ridiculously low...this is obviously not listed by intelligence, so whatever


probably the quality of the thread count in ur !!in bunk bed sheets

[pic] go blue.

Rankings don't mean !! if you're taking a joke major [pic]

University of Nevada, Las Vegas - 521

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I went to 140 (UC Irvine) I wanted to go to USC or NYU but we couldn't afford and my parents made too much for grants...damn system w/e though I had my fun with them Middle Eastern girls in Orange County [pic]

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