Northwestern Ranks High on Forbes Best Colleges List

By Amie Schaenzer

Northwestern University has made Forbes recently released list of the 2014 top 100 colleges in the United States.

Northwestern came in at No. 19, behind schools like Stanford, MIT and Swarthmore. Williams College was ranked No. 1.

Other Chicago-area college to make Forbes’ list include the University of Chicago at No. 24. and Wheaton College at 75.

Forbes 7th Annual Best College list was released Wednesday. The magazine ranks colleges based on alumni career success, low student debt and high student satisfaction and graduation rates.

Read more on Forbes.com.