Apparently, Forbes is using the “2020-2021 final release data in IPEDS”.
I don’t know (literally) how “official” those figures are, or how much room to interpretation the colleges have in their reporting? (Not a rhetorical question).
Or (tongue in cheek), USNews had it right all along all these years on how superior Columbia is, given that now even Forbes agrees using completely different sources, methodology and weighting. 