Forbes and US News both recently released rankings of American colleges and universities. The US News college and university ranking methodology is here. It is obviously a bit different than the magazine's approach to law school rankings. Here's the data Forbes used to create its rankings, in order of weight:
Student Evaluations from RateMyProfessor.com (17.5%)
Salary of Alumni from Payscale.com (15%)
Four-year Debt Load for Typical Student Borrower (12.5%)
Listings of Alumni in Who's Who in America (10%)
Actual Four-year Graduation Rate (8.75%)
Predicted vs. Actual Four-year Graduation Rate (8.75%)
Student Nationally Competitive Awards (7.5%)
Freshman-to-Sophomore Retention Rates (5%)
Student Evaluations from MyPlan.com (5%)
Alumni in Forbes/CCAP Corporate Officers List (5%)
Student Loan Default Rates (5%)
In the interest of full disclosure, the undergraduate program at Drexel got flayed using this approach. US News was much more accurate kinder.
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