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:
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
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