I bet Forbes' future law school rankings will have Cooley and Widener law schools 1-2. It'll only be a matter of days before all of the firms change their OCI plans based on the new rankings. Watch out HYS!

Swarthmore number 4! w00t!

#1 Princeton, #2 Caltech, #3 Harvard - the rankings are different enough from USNWR, but not crazy.

The Forbes' rankings are about as valid as the infamous Cooley ones. Here are some of the highlights for anyone too lazy to flip through:

12) Wabash College
13) Centre College
14) MIT
18) Chicago
23) Stanford
27) Brown

59) Doane College
60) Connecticut College
61) Penn

71) Cornell College (not the Ivy, the one in Iowa)
72) Wesleyan College (not the one in CT, but one in GA)
73) UC Berkeley

75) Mills College
78) Nebraska Wesleyan University
80) Duke
81) Johns Hopkins

118) St. Joseph's College
119) SUNY, Binghamton
120) Washington and Jefferson College
121) Cornell

I'm only surprised the number of library seats / books wasn't factored into the rankings somewhere...

Wellesley over Yale, Columbia, MIT and Stanford? The same Wellesley with a ~40% acceptance rate? I could deal with this Wabash and Centre crap, but this is where I call BS!

GW is in the lower 300s with NYU...

Cal at 73?? Cornell at 121?? But no name Centre College is at 13?? Here's what Steve Forbes told the college student rankers: "Keep a couple of baller schools at the top, otherwise, hate on all the great schools that laughed at your app."

These rankings are worse than USNWR. If I had a hard copy, it would come in handy whenever I walk my dog . . . .

Yale as #9 (with a 97% acceptance rate, apparently) and Steve Forbes's alma matter Princeton as #1? No wonder USNews will remain the determinative ranking of elite undergrad institutions.

In addition to GW and NYU, Forbes really seems to hate Georgia Tech (35 in USNWR, 501 in Forbes), Boston University (57 in USNWR, 384 in Forbes), and Northeastern (96 in USNWR, 568 in Forbes -- apparently, the second worst college in the nation...).

This study is total crap. For the real truth you have to see the Thomas M. Cooley rankings here - http://www.cooley.edu/rankings/overall2007.htm

Good lord...these look horrible...but believe it or not, Forbes has been ranking grad business schools for years, and while the ranking doesn't have the prestige of Business Week (whose ranking tops even USNEWS'), it actually tends to look respectable, unlike this one.

I wonder why all the brouhaha about these Forbes undergrad rankings, when they have been doing the MBA schools for a while?

those rankings are . . . unconventional to say the least. But Centre College is not exactly "no name". It's a well regarded liberal arts school, though admittedly not one you'd see in the position given here.

Huh. and I turned down Swarthmore (more than 15 years ago) to go to a school outside of the top 100. Got into HLS, guess I did ok anyway.

13: So you're saying what exactly?

How can these results - Pennsylvania (61st), Georgetown (76th), Cornell (121st) and Dartmouth (127th) - be right?

How can these results - Pennsylvania (61st), Georgetown (76th), Cornell (121st) and Dartmouth (127th) - be right?

Since the two primary criteria (25% each) are (1) listing in Who's Who relative to number of undergrad students and (2) some calculus based on ratemyprofessor, we can all safely disregard this nonsense. Both of those ratings can be gamed more easily than any of the USNews criteria except % employed (which is much less than 25% of the rating).

What is HYS?

13: Centre College is well-regarded? It's ranked 44 in the USNews Liberal Arts rankings (NOT the National University rankings) along with powerhouses Connecticut College and Dickinson College. It has an acceptance rate of 63%. Sorry, but to anyone outside of Kentucky, Centre College is the perfect example of "no name."

I'll take flawed methodology for $400, Alex.

I'm surprised Bovine University wasn't #1 in these rankings