Wall Street Journal Top College ranking

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@Cavitee: “Outcomes” account for 40% of the weighting and measure things like the salary graduates earn and the debt burden they take on.

Ranked by “outcome”:

  1. Harvard & Princeton

  2. Yale & Duke

  3. Penn & Stanford

  4. Cornell

  5. CalTech & JHU

  6. Dartmouth & Chicago

  7. MIT

  8. Northwestern

  9. Amherst College

  10. Brown

  11. UCLA

  12. Williams College

  13. Michigan & UCal-Berkeley & Vanderbilt

  14. Columbia

  15. Rice

  16. WashUStL & UNC

  17. Wellesley College

  18. Univ. of Virginia

  19. USC

  20. Georgetown & UC-Davis & Illinois

  21. Univ. of Washington–Seattle

  22. UC-San Diego

  23. Georgia Tech

  24. Univ. of Florida

  25. Emory

  26. Pomona College & Middlebury College

  27. Carnegie Mellon University

  28. Notre Dame

  29. Wisconsin

  30. Boston College

  31. Tufts & Maryland

  32. Swarthmore College

  33. NYU & UC-Santa Barbara

  34. Carleton College

  35. Purdue

  36. Haverford College & Univ. of Texas–Austin

  37. Claremont McKenna College

  38. Bowdoin College

  39. Smith College & Texas A&M

  40. Barnard College

  41. Davidson College

  42. BYU

  43. Colgate University & Bates College & College of William & Mary

  44. Wesleyan University

  45. Michigan State Univ.

  46. Minnesota

  47. Boston University & Hamilton College

  48. Ohio State

  49. Washington & Lee & Virginia Tech & Univ. of Georgia

  50. Univ. of Miami

  51. Grinnell College