Forbes college rankings: Stanford edges out Princeton

Stanford tops the Forbes' 2013 college rankings. The annual report was just released and is good news for the California school. According to Reuters on July 24, 2013, Princeton was bumped down to third place.

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"Princeton University in New Jersey, which was No. 1 last year, slipped to third place, followed by Yale University in Connecticut in fourth place and Columbia University in New York City at No. 5."

Second place in the Forbes college rankings also went to a California school, Pomona College, east of Los Angeles. Apparently this is only the first time that west coast schools took the top two spots in the report. Massachusetts had three schools in the to 10, the most of any state, Harvard, Williams, and MIT.

Stanford was not the most expensive school in the top five at $58,846. Columbia University took top honors for cost per year at $61,640.

This is the 6th annual edition of the Forbes college rankings and was based on several factors. Criteria such as student satisfaction, post-graduate success, student debt, graduation rate, and nationally competitive awards were measured and rated. A total of 650 schools in the United States were included this year.

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