<p>Here is the most recent Forbes list:</p>
<p>[America’s</a> Best Colleges - Forbes.com](<a href=“America's Best Colleges”>America's Best Colleges)</p>
<p>I totally agree with Cervantes - the USNews rankings have a purpose. Just don’t take them too seriously and you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>On the other hand, that Forbes ranking is garbage.</p>
<p>“I don’t think there’s a single person who picks their school based on US News rankings. Not a single person. Even the most prestige obsessed students-they already have their own perception of prestige and don’t need a magazine to tell them.”</p>
<p>You haven’t met very many international students, have you?</p>
<p>USNWR would not exist if there is no popular demand for this product.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure Forbes’ rankings were just a satire. How could anyone take them seriously with criterion like number of students on Who’s Who list (a scam organization attempting to coax kids into buying a garbage book with “honors” students, including their name)?</p>
<p>The Forbes ranking are not credible and are obviously not meant to be taken seriously. As suggested above, this has to be Forbes’ attempt at satirizing the ridiculousness of the college rankings business. If Forbes was serious - well then, may god have mercy on their souls.</p>
<p>Forbes rankings:
– Uses CCAP, an organization that has existed for a whopping TWO years
– Utilizes anonymous comments from Ratemyprofessors.com
– Uses Who’s Who, a widely acknowledged scam</p>
<p>^ Yes, those are WAY more credible than USNews’ crazy, off-the-wall measures. A open-edit website that lets you rank teachers’ “hotness”? Sure! A random, faceless research org. that has existed for two years? Sounds good to me!</p>
<p>This is terrible…I just realized that my two top choice schools are on my hate-list for athletics. Stanford beat UO in 2001, so that UO didn’t go to the Rose Bowl and beat Miami. I have trouble forgiving them for that. Princeton is orange and black, just like Oregon State. All self-respecting Oregon fans hate Oregon State.</p>
<p>For the real topic, how do they make money if we can just look on the website?</p>
<p>^^ “bad Stanford for being awesome in every way! Bad! No treat for you!”</p>
<p>Maybe its better to go to the thread on “unique features about colleges” and pick one that appeals to you.</p>
<p>That Forbes listing is beyond ridiculous. GaTech at 500? Come on! A spoof.</p>
<p>LOL.</p>
<p>Exactly Pizzagirl. I hate CCers who automatically think that just because a person wheres a college shirt, that it was their alma mater. People here need to relax and not jump to conclusions.</p>
<p>I think Forbes is much more flawed than USNWR. Uchicago all the way at #4 and Princeton dragged down to #3 and something doesn’t seem fishy?</p>
<p>All in all, I hope my school moves up from the #50 spot to at lowest #45 in rankings.</p>
<p>Unlike USNWR, Forbes actually provides rankings based upon what consumers actually think.</p>
<p>And uses even more dubious sources than USNews. Ratemyprofessors.com? Come on.</p>
<p>Are we at the part of the week where people start conjuring up “leaked” rankings yet?</p>
<p>^ Wanna be the first? :p</p>
<p>^ Damnit, stole my thunder. haha</p>
<p>Psshh…</p>
<p>I saw 45%er and ilovebagels lists…sure enough, they both had Penn at #1. Typical homers!
:p</p>
<p>Something to consider when evaluating the Forbes ranking… and hopefully taking them with a grain of salt. The primary force behind these rankings is an embittered, retired economics professor from Ohio University (not to be confused with Ohio State).</p>
<p>His “think-tank” advocates the complete abolition of all state and federal funding for higher education–including student aid. In particular, he has a raging bitterness for state “flagship” universities…probably because none of them ever rescued him from the academic wilderness of Athens, Ohio. In his dream world, there would be elite private universities for the rich and for-profit trade schools and in-house corporate training centers for the rest of us.</p>
<p>Not surprisingly, this hack has come up with a ranking system that completely marginalizes public universities.</p>
<p>That thread from last year was so funny. People were claiming they had “leaked” copies and flaunted it in CC.</p>
<p>First the WSJ and its Payscale rankings and then this. No wonder our financial system failed if these are the leading publications and they print this bunk.</p>
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<p>I know right, what’s up with that? Stanford should clearly be #1…</p>
<p>:D</p>