@PurpleTitan For me the Forbes ranking was not really relevant. First it uses very suspect data, like Payscale and Rate my professors.com etc, which I don’t have any faith in. It also favors particular majors, doesn’t take into account the fact that the coasts are more expensive to live in etc. I feel that my outcome will be dependent on my major, where I choose to live, etc. Since I don’t plan to major in Engineering which skews the salary data in a big way, I did not want to make my decision based on Forbes’s outcome based ranking. I wanted to focus on input based measures for myself
I am sure for some the Forbes ranking makes more sense. For me it did not. I am focused on attending an academically good university. I don’t want to judge that decision on “what becomes of my peers, once they graduate”