Name: Forbes ranking of the best U.S. colleges, by tuition and average debt 2019
Creator: Statista

This statistic shows the best colleges in the United States in 2019, as ranked by Forbes. The top ranked university for that year was Harvard University in Massachusetts. Students are expected to pay tuition costs of 69,600 U.S. dollars annually.

The Forbes rankings are based on five categories: alumni salary, student satisfaction, student debt, four year graduation rate, and academic success.

Forbes ranking of the best colleges in the United States in 2019, by tuition cost and average debt

	Tuition cost in U.S. dollars	Average debt
Harvard University (Massachusetts)	69,600	7,372
Stanford University (California)	69,109	8,155
Yale University (Connecticut)	71,290	4,962
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts)	67,430	7,530
Princeton University (New Jersey)	66,150	4,451
University of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania)	71,715	7,733
Brown University (Rhode Island)	71,050	7,794
California Institute of Technology (California)	68,901	5,988
Duke University (North Carolina)	71,764	6,114
Dartmouth College (New Hampshire)	71,827	6,239
Cornell University (New York)	70,321	8,107
Pomona College (California)	69,725	6,561
University of California, Berkeley (California)	65,003	6,237
Columbia University (New York)	74,199	10,740
Georgetown University (District of Columbia)	71,580	6,358
University of Chicago (Illinois)	75,735	10,381
Northwestern University (Illinois)	72,980	7,024
University of Notre Dame (Indiana)	69,395	6,600
Williams College (Massachusetts)	70,650	4,440
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Michigan)	62,176	6,965

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August 2019

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United States

Survey time period

2019

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Tuition cost for U.S. military academy is not available.

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