The University of Pennsylvania is again ranked in the top 10 on Forbes’ annual America’s Top Colleges list.
The West Philadelphia school lands at No. 10 in the 2022 rankings, dropping one spot from last year.
The Forbes list ranks 500 colleges and universities across the U.S., taking several factors into account including student academic success, graduation rates, student debt, and return on investment. In additional to its overall position, Penn ranks eighth in 10-year median salary for graduates at $164,000 and 10th for average grant aid at $54,019.
Greater Philadelphia private schools Swarthmore College, Villanova University and Bryn Mawr College rank among the top 100 schools at No. 38, No. 94 and No. 95, respectively. Haverford College finished just behind that group at No. 105.
Other than Penn, no colleges in the city finished in the top 150. Drexel University comes in at No. 168, Temple University at No. 205, Thomas Jefferson University at No. 274, Saint Joseph’s University at No. 313, and La Salle University at No. 435.
Large public schools in the region that made the list this year include the University of Delaware at No. 132, Rutgers University – Camden at No. 245 and West Chester University at No. 371.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology topped the 2022 Forbes list, followed by Stanford University and the University of California at Berkley, with Princeton and Columbia universities rounding out the top five.
Penn’s one-spot drop paled in comparison to the significant slides suffered by some other Ivy League schools. Yale University dropped five spots from last year to No. 8, and Harvard University tumbled out of the top 10. The Cambridge, Massachusetts, school fell eight spots to No. 15 this year. Forbes cited a decrease in Harvard’s three-year average retention rate to 90% as the primary reason for the fall.
The Forbes list published just one day after Pittsburgh-based data company Niche released its Best Colleges rankings, which placed Penn at No. 11 in the nation.
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