Five Rhode Island Colleges Ranked on Forbes’ National List
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Brown University was ranked number one for happiest students by the Princeton Review. Find out how Brown and other Rhode Island schools were ranked by Forbes.
In Forbes’ “America’s Best Colleges 2010,” Brown University was ranked #45, behind every other Ivy League school except for Cornell University. Providence College was the second best ranked RI school, coming in at #199. University of Rhode Island, Bryant and Roger Williams came far behind, ranked at #477, #503 and #591 respectively.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTThe Forbes’ ranking is based on ten weighted factors. Here are the percentages: Student Satisfaction (27.5 %), Postgraduate Success (30%), Student Debt (17.5%), Four-year Graduation Rate (17.5%), Competitive Awards (7.5%), Student Evaluations from Ratemyprofessors.com (17.5%), Freshman-to-Sophomore Retention Rates (5%), Student Evaluations from MyPlan.com (5%), Alumni in Forbes/CCAP Corporate Officers List (5%), and the Listing of Alumni in Who’s Who in America (10%).
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