America's Top Colleges 2011

Ah, Massachusetts: The same (and ONLY) state that didn't vote for Nixon (because we're smarter than you) has almost half of the best schools in the county (because we're STILL smarter than you).

Zero cost for a military school.? That Bullsheit. It cost you years of your life in the military and possibly your life it combat. Buy a clue dumbarse.

they say that america has the best collages but why we do not see american in there only outsiders, cause u know the answer i am not going to give u and yes even the job market is gone out to the best countries,all u have here is bking ,mc,d and wendy.even bill gate gets his job done from outsiders ask him,and apple also so u know no point in this big collages we talk about.sorry no hard feelings smile when read cause its on u.

What most people seem to fail to understand is that these schools are not as much about what you learn (most colleges will provide an equal education) but who you meet. These are the schools that all the big shots send their kids too and if you do well at Harvard AND make some friends with the kids who's dads are CEO's of Fortune 500 companies you'll have a much better chance of jump starting your career than you would graduating from a local college.

Might as well draw names out of a hat. The list is so random it's laughable.

Same old popularity game.

The only student information site that is completely unbiased, free, and doesn't sell your info to someone is Kaarme.com -We don't use all the tools it offers for students, but it sure helps to build and send student resumes and find scholarships and help. The textbook pages are a little clunky.

You can go to any of these Colleges and you end up with the same result. A crap load of debt and no job to pay it off. Save your money and develope a skill or start a business. You'll be way ahead without the toxic indoctrination programs in our colleges.

Notice that there are not any Christian Conservative Fundamentalist colleges on this list.

Thank you Jesus.

they can teach economics To Harvard & Columbia --or put Joe the Plummer on the tenure list!

After reading a lot of these comments, I realized that a lot of people seem to not know much about colleges.

First of all, colleges are what people make out of them. People can be successful at many colleges, they just have to take all of the opportunities given to them. The most successful have a set career track in mind or build connections with their smart peers. Some do waste 60k a year on colleges and get nothing out of it, but Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and to a lesser extent, other schools give huge amounts of financial aid. Students with parents making less than 60k don't pay anything, which includes room and board. Generally, lower ranking private schools and liberal arts schools give less money since they have fewer wealthy donors, so there's not much of a point for going to these schools unless if a school is great in a major (ie. Carnegie Mellon for Computer Science ). State schools are usually good, but it's easy to get too caught up into partying.

Also, for US Service Academies, you don't have to fight, just work off your hours (ie. work as an engineer), which is more or less your tuition.

I like how many people assume that "liberal arts" are leftest, since in this case liberal is used in its nonpartisan definition.

Also, schools have nothing to do with the politicians they produce. Politicians aren't the best at policy making, they are the best at appealing to a least common denominator and gaining votes and popular support. They don't follow what they were taught, they follow what appeals to the most people.

Why anyone would send their kid to any of these schools is beyond me. They are mainly just liberal socialist breeding cesspools. Look at Harvard, no wonder it scored so low for supposedly top notch school, it's the place that Elana Kagen and Obama Jr' come from. How much more evidence do you need not to go there. If you send your kid to college these days there is a good chance they will return a braindead liberal shmuck.

Go Zags!

Brian Cooney,

I'm embarrassed for you. Stanford is in California.

Did anybody read the methodology used by Forbes (who's only been ranking since 2008, btw)? 25% is based on the number of Who's Who in America listings, 25% is based on results from ratemyprofessors.com and 16.67% is based on college debt of graduating students. I'll stick with US News and World's rankings.

The whole idea that we need to put ourselves in debt in order to achieve the American dream through these government mandated ponzi schemes will come to light soon. Wake up lemmings again you are propagated and brainwashed and destined to a service job with a degree.
Here is another thought its called reality have a look see and really educate yourself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpZtX32sKVE

Why would these be the best? Most of them push the same liberal agenda that is wrecking our country. Until they are open to free thought, open dialoge and not their agenda I would not call them the best.

how taxes and school aid are used according to judge judy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sYH6npvlIo this must be how obama made it thru

Colleges are a racket!! Schools of indoctrination that you have to mortgage your life to pay for!

It's interesting to me to compare and contrast the Forbes college/university rankings with the U.S. News & World Report college/university rankings. What was most startling to me was that Johns Hopkins, e.g., didn't even make the top 100 in the Forbes report supposedly finishing #101. Something, therefore, is obviously awry with the Forbes report. While I believe the overall Forbes college/university rankings are essentially valid when it comes to Hopkins/JHU, however, I respectfully believe its assessment is "upper cooey" and under phooey!

I think my school should be on their list of 100 best schools. Every time I come on here I have to disagree with most of Forbes choices. SU ROCKS!!!