Top on a Tuesday! 50 Highest Ranked US Colleges

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)