'Forbes' Releases 2018 America’s Top Colleges Rankings

As the school year approaches, various sources have been publishing rankings of the best colleges in the country. Money puts Princeton at the top, while Zippia ranks the University of Maryland — Baltimore as the school with the highest-earning grads. The latest report comes from Forbes, which releases an "America’s Top Colleges" list every year, and it has a different verdict.

Much of the list is what you might expect based on schools' reputations, with the top 10 consisting of six Ivies (all of them except Cornell, which came in at #13, and Columbia, at #15), Stanford, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the California Institute of Technology (CIT). Last year's list was similar, except that Yale switched places with Stanford and MIT switched places with Princeton. The University of California, Berkeley made it to #14, the highest a state school's ever gotten on the list. The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor was not far behind, at #22.

Like Money's list this year, Forbes's makes a case for going to California, with Harvey Mudd, Pomona College, and the University of Southern California in the top 30 along with Berkeley, Stanford, and CIT.

Here are the top schools on the America’s Top Colleges list, and you can check out the rest at Forbes.

1. Harvard University

2. Yale University

3. Stanford University

4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

5. Princeton University

6. California Institute of Technology

7. University of Pennsylvania

8. Brown University

9. Dartmouth College

10. Duke University

Earlier this year, Forbes ranked the country's best value colleges, with UCLA, UC Berkeley, Brigham Young, UC Irvine, and the University of Washington — Seattle making up the top five.

Related: 'Forbes' Ranks Best Value Colleges of 2017

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