Tuck | Mr. Invest In Change
GMAT 710, GPA 3.1
Tuck | Mr. Chemical Engineer
GRE 326, GPA 3
INSEAD | Mr. Future AI Product Manager
GMAT 715, GPA 3.7
NYU Stern | Mr. Operations Strategy & Youth Leadership
GMAT 770, GPA 4
IE Business School | Mr. JD Garay
GRE GPA: 3.9, GPA 3.0
Kellogg SOM | Mr. Military To Entrepreneur
GMAT 745, GPA 2.38
London Business School | Mr. Decarbonisation
GMAT 695, GPA 3.5
Kellogg SOM | Mr. MENA Growth Equity
GMAT 730, GPA 3.4
Kellogg SOM | Mr. West Point Logistics
GRE 327, GPA 2.76
Harvard | Mr. Energy & AI PM
GRE 328, GPA 9.65
Tepper | Mr. Tech Mil-Veteran
GMAT TBD, GPA 3.35
Columbia | Mr. European MBB Consultant
GMAT 645 (Gmat Focus), GPA 8.2
MIT Sloan | Mr. Startup Strategy
GMAT 720, GPA 3.7
Stanford GSB | Mr. Mid-Market PE
GMAT 770, GPA 4
Stanford GSB | Mr. MBB Guy From Big 4 & Startup
GRE 325, GPA 3

Ranking: The Forbes 2024-2025 Top Colleges in America

by: Kristy Bleizeffer on September 07, 2024

The top 100 colleges and universities in Forbes’ 2024-2025 ranking of the 500 best universities and colleges in America are list below.

See Forbes‘ full list here. 

Forbes’ 2024-2025 Top 100 Universities in America
2024 Rank
Name
State
Type
Av. Grant Aid
Av. Debt
Median 10-year Salary
1 Princeton University NJ Private not-for-profit $59,792 $7,559 $189,400
2 Stanford University CA Private not-for-profit $60,619 $12,999 $177,500
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA Private not-for-profit $45,591 $13,792 $189,400
4 Yale University CT Private not-for-profit $63,523 $4,926 $168,300
5 University of California, Berkeley CA Public $21,669 $7,238 $167,000
6 Columbia University NY Private not-for-profit $61,061 $16,849 $156,000
7 University of Pennsylvania PA Private not-for-profit $57,175 $12,499 $171,800
8 Harvard University MA Private not-for-profit $61,801 $9,004 $171,400
9 Rice University TX Private not-for-profit $51,955 $10,818 $152,100
10 Cornell University NY Private not-for-profit $54,219 $8,309 $155,400
11 Northwestern University IL Private not-for-profit $61,716 $6,973 $141,300
12 Johns Hopkins University MD Private not-for-profit $54,405 $9,843 $142,300
13 University of California, Los Angeles CA Public $21,766 $6,418 $144,400
14 University of Chicago IL Private not-for-profit $48,422 $12,150 $150,600
15 Vanderbilt University TN Private not-for-profit $53,932 $8,872 $148,000
16 Dartmouth College NH Private not-for-profit $62,293 $6,404 $173,300
17 Williams College MA Private not-for-profit $57,121 $4,143 $169,200
18 Brown University RI Private not-for-profit $55,847 $10,059 $155,000
19 Claremont McKenna College CA Private not-for-profit $50,020 $7,631 $167,000
20 Duke University NC Private not-for-profit $57,444 $6,351 $158,700
21 University of California, San Diego CA Public $20,782 $6,437 $151,500
22 California Institute of Technology CA Private not-for-profit $59,192 $12,553 $168,600
23 Wellesley College MA Private not-for-profit $61,328 $5,608 $134,100
24 Amherst College MA Private not-for-profit $58,693 $9,293 $139,700
25 Bowdoin College ME Private not-for-profit $53,534 $10,512 $152,900
26 University of Florida FL Public $10,555 $6,122 $123,700
27 Swarthmore College PA Private not-for-profit $47,703 $7,705 $154,900
28 University of Southern California CA Private not-for-profit $45,262 $7,526 $150,100
29 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI Public $15,121 $8,470 $137,500
30 Washington University in St. Louis MO Private not-for-profit $58,188 $9,495 $142,800
31 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC Public $18,066 $7,953 $118,200
32 Georgetown University DC Private not-for-profit $45,949 $8,982 $163,400
33 Emory University GA Private not-for-profit $48,914 $7,280 $138,600
34 University of Virginia VA Public $26,818 $8,639 $149,100
35 University of California, Santa Barbara CA Public $20,389 $7,453 $148,600
36 Brigham Young University UT Private not-for-profit $6,325 $5,457 $133,900
37 Pomona College CA Private not-for-profit $57,848 $9,049 $138,900
38 Georgia Institute of Technology GA Public $13,992 $7,027 $163,500
39 University of California, Irvine CA Public $17,411 $6,561 $148,400
40 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign IL Public $16,552 $6,697 $139,900
41 University of Maryland, College Park MD Public $11,232 $10,201 $134,700
42 University of Notre Dame IN Private not-for-profit $49,859 $7,390 $160,200
43 University of California, Davis CA Public $20,548 $5,965 $142,700
44 University of Washington, Seattle WA Public $14,731 $6,169 $136,800
45 Colgate University NY Private not-for-profit $54,647 $9,018 $173,800
46 University of Texas, Austin TX Public $8,321 $5,851 $137,000
47 Washington and Lee University VA Private not-for-profit $55,567 $7,714 $162,500
48 Davidson College NC Private not-for-profit $46,496 $8,422 $140,300
49 New York University NY Private not-for-profit $47,096 $8,550 $147,100
50 University of Wisconsin, Madison WI Public $11,171 $9,299 $125,900
51 Middlebury College VT Private not-for-profit $56,639 $8,541 $139,500
52 Tufts University MA Private not-for-profit $51,613 $7,034 $144,400
53 Boston University MA Private not-for-profit $51,565 $10,425 $144,400
54 Wesleyan University CT Private not-for-profit $59,825 $9,716 $149,200
55 William & Mary VA Public $15,134 $8,882 $134,200
56 Barnard College NY Private not-for-profit $53,817 $7,339 $149,300
57 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo CA Public $10,065 $6,132 $148,600
58 Carnegie Mellon University PA Private not-for-profit $43,966 $6,525 $162,100
59 Boston College MA Private not-for-profit $49,992 $3,588 $142,200
60 Lafayette College PA Private not-for-profit $24,981 $8,349 $158,700
61 Santa Clara University CA Private not-for-profit $25,295 $7,778 $173,100
62 University of Georgia GA Public $11,559 $6,778 $124,800
63 Purdue University IN Public $8,950 $9,125 $126,300
64 Lehigh University PA Private not-for-profit $44,116 $9,603 $168,200
65 Florida State University FL Public $10,169 $6,953 $111,900
66 Hamilton College NY Private not-for-profit $52,497 $4,749 $125,400
67 George Washington University DC Private not-for-profit $35,257 $10,893 $148,300
68 North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC Public $9,181 $7,194 $128,600
69 Franklin W Olin College of Engineering MA Private not-for-profit $40,522 $9,042
70 Texas A&M University, College Station TX Public $12,278 $8,518 $139,700
71 Trinity College (CT) CT Private not-for-profit $46,929 $7,819 $141,600
72 Haverford College PA Private not-for-profit $57,999 $10,152 $146,900
73 Northeastern University MA Private not-for-profit $42,331 $8,278 $130,300
74 CUNY, Baruch College NY Public $9,423 $5,495 $132,100
75 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities MN Public $11,388 $9,722 $125,700
76 Binghamton University, SUNY NY Public $11,305 $7,783 $136,600
77 San Diego State University CA Public $9,934 $8,240 $124,100
78 Cooper Union NY Private not-for-profit $39,305 $8,310 $156,500
79 Rutgers University NJ Public $12,785 $8,040 $137,000
80 Bates College ME Private not-for-profit $51,414 $8,728 $150,500
81 Grinnell College IA Private not-for-profit $42,231 $7,707 $121,900
82 University of Miami (FL) FL Private not-for-profit $37,322 $8,432 $120,000
83 Virginia Tech VA Public $7,649 $10,100 $136,000
84 Stony Brook University, SUNY NY Public $11,584 $7,068 $129,700
85 University of Connecticut CT Public $14,678 $8,108 $126,000
86 Ohio State University OH Public $10,993 $7,842 $116,900
87 Villanova University PA Private not-for-profit $42,834 $10,781 $140,400
88 Wake Forest University NC Private not-for-profit $54,233 $10,075 $145,200
89 California State University, Long Beach CA Public $9,478 $5,404 $121,700
90 Michigan State University MI Public $8,684 $8,138 $118,800
91 University of Rochester NY Private not-for-profit $39,715 $7,198 $140,900
92 Indiana University, Bloomington IN Public $10,336 $9,757 $117,300
93 Bucknell University PA Private not-for-profit $37,775 $11,397 $155,500
94 University of Utah UT Public $9,696 $8,287 $125,900
95 Trinity University (TX) TX Private not-for-profit $33,614 $9,574 $130,600
96 Babson College MA Private not-for-profit $30,513 $9,137 $175,200
97 University of California, Riverside CA Public $22,042 $5,140 $128,800
98 Clemson University SC Public $10,430 $11,748 $125,200
99 Southern Methodist University TX Private not-for-profit $35,344 $12,369 $139,000
100 California State University, Fullerton CA Public $9,194 $5,834 $118,200

 

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