Forbes magazine has once again rated Scripps College one of America’s top colleges, with an overall ranking of 80 in its . Scripps comes in at 14 in the national publication’s and 68th in best private colleges.
With a focus on return on investment, Forbes partners with the聽Washington, D.C.芒鈧�渂ased聽Center for College Affordability and Productivity聽to rank聽650 U.S. colleges and universities. Five weighted general categories are used to determine the rankings: student satisfaction (25%), post-graduate success (32.5%), student debt (25%), graduation rate (10%), and academic success (10%).
Forbes points out in its study that colleges and universities are “now focusing on student-consumer value over marketing prestige, making this a new age of return-on-investment education.” New this year was Forbes‘ inclusion of social media in the study’s metrics; targeted students participated in a satisfaction survey on Facebook, where they rated their school experience on a scale from one to five.