‘America’s Top Colleges’ List Ranks Indiana Schools
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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowAn annual list ranking “America's Top Colleges” includes 17 locations in Indiana. Forbes and the Washington, D.C.-based Center for College Affordability and Productivity considered factors such as student satisfaction, graduation rate and post-graduate success. The list includes 650 schools throughout the country and Indiana placed three in the top 100. More specific factors include average graduate salary, retention rates, alums receiving major national awards and numbers of prestigious scholarships.
The publication says the results show what students are “getting out of college,” as opposed to how they got into a particular institution.
A total of 17 schools in the state are ranked on this year's list.
17. University of Notre Dame
91. DePauw University
92. Earlham College
107. Indiana University
119. Purdue University
179. Wabash College
239. Butler University
243. Saint Mary's College
257. Taylor University
258. Hanover College
270. Valparaiso University
307. University of Evansville
313. Goshen College
406. Huntington University
561. Ball State University
607. IUPUI
647. Indiana State University
The top 5 in the nation are:
1. Williams College in Massachusetts
2. Stanford University in California
3. Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania
4. Princeton University in New Jersey
5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Source: Forbes