Forbes rated Princeton University the country's best college in its inaugural (2008) list.
[1] The United States Military Academy at West Point took the top honor the following year.
[2] Williams College was ranked first both in 2010 and 2011, and Princeton returned to the top spot in 2012.
[12][13] They would be replaced by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2022 and Princeton University would return again to the top spot in 2023.
As of 2024,[14] the top ten colleges, according to "America's Top Colleges" are: Starting in 2013, four schools that had admitted to misreporting admissions data were removed from the list for two years.