Check out the Forbes list of the 50 best colleges in America:
1. Williams College – Massachusetts
2. Princeton University – New Jersey
3. United States Military Academy – New York
4. Amherst College – Massachusetts
5. Stanford University – California
6. Harvard University – Massachusetts
7. Haverford College – Pennsylvania
8. University of Chicago – Illinois
9. Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Massachusetts
10. United States Air Force Academy – Colorado
11. Northwestern University – Illinois
12. Claremont McKenna College – California
13. California Institute of Technology – California
14. Yale University – Connecticut
15. Carleton College – Minnesota
16. Swarthmore College – Pennsylvania
17. United States Naval Academy – Maryland
18. University of Notre Dame – Indiana
19. Wellesley College – Massachusetts
20. Colby College – Maine
21. Brown University – Rhode Island
22. Duke University – North Carolina
23. Pomana College – California
24. Vassar College – New York
25. Washington and Lee University – Virginia
26. Boston College – Massachusetts
27. College of the Holy Cross – Massachusetts
28. Rice University – Texas
29. Union College – New York
30. Dartmouth College – New Hampshire
31. Colorado College – Colorado
32. Bates College – Maine
33. Lafayette College – Pennsylvania
34. Centre College – Kentucky
35. Wesleyan University - Connecticut
36. Whitman College – Washington
37. Colgate University – New York
38. Bowdoin College - Maine
39. Tufts University – Massachusetts
40. Middlebury College – Vermont
41. Scripps College – California
42. Columbia University in the City of New York – New York
43. Kenyon College – Ohio
44. Harvey Mudd College – California
45. Emory University – Georgia
46. University of Virginia – Main Campus – Virginia
47. Georgetown University - District of Columbia
48. Bucknell University – Pennsylvania
49. College of William and Mary – Virginia
50. DePauw University – Indiana
* Values Calculated June 2011*
See the full list here ( includes costs and student populations)
