<p>Here’s last year’s list: [America’s</a> 20 Top Colleges - Forbes](<a href=“http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelnoer/2011/08/03/americas-20-top-colleges/]America’s”>America's 20 Top Colleges)</p>
<p>West Point was still ranked above the Naval Academy, but there wasn’t such a gap (and the Air Force Academy was in between). Chicago was 8th; Amherst was much higher than this year, at 4th, and Yale was 14th.</p>