America's Top Colleges

When my alma mater scores well, these lists are obviously well done :-)

#3 US Military Academy
#5 Stanford
#6 Harvard
#9 MIT
#10 US Air Force Academy
#13 Cal Tech
#14 Yale
#17 US Naval Academy
#18 Notre Dame
#21 Brown
#22 Duke
That's enough from the Top 25.

My (hopefully) new alma mater, home of the Vandals, comes in at #449.
Hometown Sacramento State comes in at #501.

Because of our emphasis on financial prudence, the zero-cost military service academies rank highly.  West Point, which topped the list two years ago, ranks third this time, thanks to outstanding teaching (#3) and high alumni salaries (#8), while the Air Force Academy (#10) and the Naval Academy (#17) glide easily into the top 20.  Even the less prestigious academies – the Coast Guard (#97) and the Merchant Marine (#158) — score well.

Outside of the academies, the highest ranked public school is the University of Virginia (#46) followed closely by the College of William and Mary (#49) and UCLA (#55).

Let's not forget that the service academies also rank high in "student employment upon graduation" :-)