Forbes yesterday released America's Best Colleges, a ranking of the Top 600 colleges and universities  from the students' point of view.  Here is the methodology:

• 25%:  Student satisfaction with their course instruction
• 25%:  Post-graduate employment success
• 20%:  Average student debt load
• 16.67%:  Likelihood of graduation within four years
• 13.33%:  Student (8.33%) and faculty (5%) awards

Here are the Top 25 schools:

1. U.S. Military Academy
2. Princeton
3. California Institute of Technology
4. Williams
5. Harvard
6. Wellesley
7. U.S. Air Force Academy
8. Amherst
9. Yale
10. Stanford
11. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
12. Swarthmore
13. Columbia
14. Centre College
15. Haverford
16. Boston College
17. Northwestern
18. Bowdoin
19. Vassar
20. Whitman
21. Chicago
22. Kenyon
23. Carleton
24. Colby
25. Middlebury