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These 7 Colleges Are The Best In Rhode Island: Forbes

It's just about college season. One Rhode Island school made Forbes' top 10 list.

Brown is one of the top schools in America. Even Forbes said so.
Brown is one of the top schools in America. Even Forbes said so. (Jen Nunes)

New college rankings from Forbes Magazine name 650 schools, including seven in Rhode Island that it says are among the best in the country for 2019.

Harvard topped topped Forbes’ list, followed by Stanford, Yale, MIT and Princeton. Brown made the top 10 list, coming in seventh.

The magazine says that whether a school ranks among the top 10 or is closer to the bottom, the institutions still “count as the best in the country.”

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Forbes’ annual rankings looks at colleges that “deliver the top academics, career success and lowest debt.”

Here’s how Rhode Island colleges were ranked on Forbes’ list:

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The top 10 colleges on Forbes’ list are:

  1. Harvard University
  2. Stanford University
  3. Yale University
  4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  5. Princeton University
  6. University of Pennsylvania
  7. Brown University
  8. California Institute of Technology
  9. Duke University
  10. Dartmouth College

The methodology behind the rankings looks at five categories: alumni salary, student satisfaction, debt, on-time graduation rate and academic success. (Read more about Forbes’ methodology)


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