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Loyola ranks No. 360 out of the 650 schools on Forbe’s list. Forbe’s also ranked Loyola No. 270 among private colleges, No. 132 among research universities and No. 82 among colleges in the Midwest.
Loyola also beat the University of Illinois at Chicago, ranked No. 381; DePaul, ranked No. 512; and Columbia College, ranked No. 646.
The top local university was the University of Chicago, ranked No. 4 on Forbe’s list.
On the rival U. S. News and World Report rankings, Loyola also beats crosstown rival DePaul. U. S News ranks Loyola University Chicago No. 119 among the nation’s top schools. DePaul, meanwhile, comes in with a rank of No. 132.
Click here for the full U. S. News and World Report list: College Rankings
Click here for the full Forbe’s list: Forbe’s Rankings.
On the Forbe’s rankings, here’s how other local colleges and universities place onn the list:
22.) Northwestern University.
86.) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
166.) Lake Forest College.
192.) Knox College.
236.) Illinois Wesleyan University.
341.) Illinois Institute of Technology.
381.) University of Illinois at Chicago.
512.) DePaul University.
646.) Columbia College Chicago.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports the following about the Forbes list:
Princeton University topped the Forbe’s rankings, which were produced for the magazine by the Washington-based Center for College Affordability & Productivity and take into account factors including graduation rates, students who win prestigious awards or go on to obtain a doctorate, career prospects, alumni pay, student satisfaction, as well as low levels of debt coming out of school.
“It’s easy to spend more than a quarter of a million dollars for an undergraduate degree, and a lot of people are beginning to ask: Is it worth it?” says Michael Noer, the magazine’s executive editor. “The answer obviously varies, but it is still an unqualified ‘yes’ for those schools ranking at the top of our list.”
Williams College in Massachusetts, No. 1 the previous two years, slipped to the No. 2 spot on the list, followed by:
3.) Stanford University.
4.) U. of C.
6.) Harvard University.
7.) U.S. Military Academy at West Point, in New York.
8.) Columbia University, New York City.
9.) Pomona College.
10.) Swarthmore College.
The rankings — 650 schools, in all — will be in the Aug. 20 issue of the magazine and are available online at
http://www.forbes.com/top-colleges.
