Forbes has launched a new ranking of 569 colleges and universities, based on this methodology:

• Listing of Alumni in Who’s Who in America (25%)
• Student Evaluations of Professors from Ratemyprofessors.com (25%)
• Four- Year Graduation Rates (16 2/3%)
• Enrollment-adjusted numbers of students and faculty receiving nationally competitive awards (16 2/3%)
• Average four year accumulated student debt of those borrowing money (16 2/3%)

Here are Forbes’ Top 25:

1. Princeton
2. California Institute of Technology
3. Harvard
4. Swarthmore
5. Williams
6. U.S. Military Academy
7. Amherst
8. Wellesley
9. Yale
10. Columbia
11. Northwestern
12. Wabash
13. Centre College (KY)
14. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
15. Bowdoin College
16. U.S. Air Force Academy
17. Middlebury
18. University of Chicago
19. Smith
20. Pomona
21. Wesleyan
22. Haverford
23. Stanford
24. Hamilton
25. Sarah Lawrence