Williams College Top on Forbes List For Best U.S. Colleges in 2010
Williams College has left behind Yale and Harvard. Williams College is situated in Massachusetts. The list for the ranking has been assembled by Forbes.com and the Center for College Affordability and Productivity (CCAP) in Washington D.C.
Currently around 2200 students are enrolled at Williams College. Williams College passed precedent Princeton and Amherst, which came in second and third respectively on the ranking list.
Meanwhile William Wagner said, “It’s always gratifying to be considered among the top institutions in the county.” He is the dean of faculty atWilliams College.
The list of top five was filled by the US Military Academy located at West Point and the MIT. Harvard is placed at No. 8 while Yale slipped into the top 10.
The criteria used to rank the colleges takes into consideration the cost of tuition, the salaries of graduates and students’ experiences, Rhodes scholarships winners and Nobel Prizes winners along with many other combinations.
Meanwhile the deputy editor at Forbes, David Ewalt, has said: ‘Colleges that don’t saddle students with a lot of debt and places with small class sizes rank higher.’
The best US Colleges report prepared by the Forbes and CCAP has taken into account only nine percent of the 6,600 institutions accredited.
Williams College was established in 1793. Its establishment was granted by the estate of Ephraim Williams. Williams College is one of the oldest educational institutions in the US. At the start it was college for men only. Co-education at Williams College began in 1970.
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