<p>Oops, put Colgate on the wrong list. Should be in LACs, not Universities (I blame whoever named it Colgate University).</p>
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<p>Okay, so it turns out, they’re no more anti-public than US News. The thing is, they seem to favor LACs over Universities, and since their lists are merged, it just looks like they hate publics more. I just divided it (well, the top 50 for each), and while it still looks different from US News, and methods still remain inane, public schools aren’t that much different (some are higher).</p>
<p>Forbes Top 50 Universities</p>
<ol>
<li>Princeton University</li>
<li>Stanford University</li>
<li>Harvard University</li>
<li>University of Chicago</li>
<li>Massachusetts Insitute of Technology</li>
<li>Northwestern University</li>
<li>California Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Yale University</li>
<li>University of Notre Dame</li>
<li>Brown University</li>
<li>Duke University</li>
<li>Boston College</li>
<li>Rice University</li>
<li>Dartmouth College</li>
<li>Wesleyan University</li>
<li>Tufts University</li>
<li>Columbia University</li>
<li>Emory University</li>
<li>University of Virginia</li>
<li>Georgetown University</li>
<li>Bucknell University</li>
<li>College of William and Mary</li>
<li>DePauw University</li>
<li>Cornell University</li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania</li>
<li>Vanderbilt University</li>
<li>University of California - LA</li>
<li>Sewanee: University of the South</li>
<li>Lawrence University</li>
<li>St Lawrence University</li>
<li>Santa Clara University</li>
<li>University of California - Berkeley</li>
<li>University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)</li>
<li>Wake Forest University</li>
<li>Furman University</li>
<li>Boston University</li>
<li>Brandeis University</li>
<li>University of Michigan - Ann Arbor</li>
<li>Translyvania University</li>
<li>Willamete University</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon University</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins University</li>
<li>University of Dallas</li>
<li>Pepperdine University</li>
<li>University of Redlands</li>
<li>Denison University</li>
<li>Washington University in St Louis</li>
<li>Saint Johns University</li>
<li>Trinity University</li>
<li>Loyola University Maryland</li>
</ol>
<p>Forbes Top 50 LACs</p>
<ol>
<li>Williams College</li>
<li>US Military Academy</li>
<li>Amherst College</li>
<li>Haverford College</li>
<li>US Air Force Academy</li>
<li>Claremont McKenna College</li>
<li>Carleton College</li>
<li>Swarthmore College</li>
<li>US Naval Academy</li>
<li>Wellesley College</li>
<li>Colby College</li>
<li>Pomona College</li>
<li>Vassar College</li>
<li>College of the Holy Cross</li>
<li>Union College</li>
<li>Colorado College</li>
<li>Bates College</li>
<li>Lafayette College</li>
<li>Centre College</li>
<li>Whitman College</li>
<li>Colgate University</li>
<li>Bowdoin College</li>
<li>Middlebury College</li>
<li>Scripps College</li>
<li>Kenyon College</li>
<li>Harvey Mudd College</li>
<li>Bryn Mawr College</li>
<li>Smith College</li>
<li>Barnard College</li>
<li>Dickinson College</li>
<li>Hillsdale College</li>
<li>Davidson College</li>
<li>Connecticut College</li>
<li>Virginia Military Institute</li>
<li>Wheaton College</li>
<li>Grinnell College</li>
<li>Skidmore College</li>
<li>Hamilton College</li>
<li>Oberlin College</li>
<li>Wofford College</li>
<li>Rhodes College</li>
<li>Westmont College</li>
<li>St. Olaf College</li>
<li>Knox College</li>
<li>Trinity College</li>
<li>Mount Holyoke College</li>
<li>Saint Norbert College</li>
<li>Saint Anselm College</li>
<li>Wabash College</li>
<li>Hobard William Smith Colleges</li>
</ol>
<p>I probably made a couple mistakes (maybe skipped or miscategorized one) , but there it is. Looks a little more familiar, but still major differences. Even though I like seeing ND higher, I still don’t think this is any more valid than USNWR, and the methods seem worse, even if the idea behind them is better.</p>
<p>Public universities:</p>
<ol>
<li>University of Virginia</li>
<li>College of William and Mary</li>
<li>University of California - LA</li>
<li>University of California - Berkeley</li>
<li>University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)</li>
<li>University of Michigan - Ann Arbor</li>
</ol>
<p>And here they are in US News:</p>
<ol>
<li>University of California - Berkeley</li>
<li>University of California - LA</li>
<li>University of Virginia</li>
<li>University of Michigan - Ann Arbor</li>
<li>University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)</li>
<li>College of William and Mary</li>
</ol>
<p>WM: +9
UVa: +6
UCLA: -2
UNC: -3
UCB: -10
UM: -10</p>
<p>So WM shot up, UVa went up a bit, UCLA and UNC went down a little, and UCB and UM dropped down.</p>
<p>Not exactly a hatred of public universities, just a disagreement with US News on which ones are best.</p>
<p>Public LACs:</p>
<ol>
<li>US Military Academy</li>
<li>US Air Force Academy</li>
<li>US Naval Academy</li>
<li>Virginia Military Institute</li>
</ol>
<p>And in US News:</p>
<p>National
16. US Military Academy
16. US Naval Academy
62. Virginia Military Institute</p>
<p>Regional, West
- US Air Force Academy</p>
<p>USAF: +1 Tier, then #5
VMI: +28
USMA: +14
USNA: +7</p>
<p>They really like these.</p>
<p>So no, for all its other flaws, the Forbes ranking isn’t “extremely anti-public.”</p>