Here Are The Top Colleges In New Jersey, According To Latest Forbes Ranking

Only one New Jersey school made the top 100 in Forbes' 2016 college rankings, which put an emphasis on return on investment.

Princeton University was ranked No. 3, trailing only Stanford University and Williams College nationwide. Otherwise, you have to go all the way to No. 141 for the next Garden State school, where Rutgers University checks in.

Here are the New Jersey schools that made the list, which included 660 schools nationwide, with their national ranking in parentheses:

1. Princeton University (3)
2. Rutgers University (141)
3. College of New Jersey (179)
4. Stevens Institute of Technology (248)
5. Drew University (274)
6. Seton Hall University (299)
7. New Jersey Institute of Technology (386)
8. Montclair State University (470
9. Rowan University (471)
10. Rider University (488)
11. Stockton University (489)
12. Fairleigh Dickinson University, Metropolitan Campus (503)

See the full list of New Jersey colleges here

Forbes used data from the Department of Education, along with payscale.com and the America's Leaders List to compile the rankings on the top 660 schools. They rated each school on post-graduate success, student debt, student satisfaction, graduation rate and academic success.

Read Forbes' full methodology here

The top 10 schools nationwide were:

1. Stanford University
2. Williams College
3. Princeton University
4. Harvard University
5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6. Yale University
7. Pomona College
8. Brown University
9. Wesleyan University
10. Swarthmore College

See the full national rankings here

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