{"id":184808,"date":"2023-10-09T15:58:55","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T01:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=184808"},"modified":"2023-10-09T15:59:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T01:59:11","slug":"forbes-top-colleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/10\/09\/forbes-top-colleges\/","title":{"rendered":"Forbes lauds <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa for high grad rates, alumni salary, low debt, more"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/manoa-miro-qs-program-rankings-2022.jpg\" alt=\"person with a book sitting under a tree\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-157381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/manoa-miro-qs-program-rankings-2022.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/manoa-miro-qs-program-rankings-2022-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/manoa-miro-qs-program-rankings-2022-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa<\/a> is ranked <abbr>No<\/abbr>. 274 out of the top 500 universities in the nation, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/top-colleges\/\">America\u2019s Top Colleges 2023<\/a> list by <em>Forbes<\/em>. The top 500 universities were selected out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/programs\/digest\/d21\/tables\/dt21_317.10.asp?current=yes\">approximately 2,640 four-year institutions<\/a> in the U.S. The rankings are based on several categories, including graduation and retention rates, alumni salary and academic excellence.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The latest ranking affirms our commitment to providing a high quality education to the people of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> that is affordable and accessible to all,&rdquo; <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa Provost Michael Bruno said. &ldquo;Every ranking has different methodologies and yet <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa always finds itself among the top tier universities in the country.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa was highly ranked in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/09\/27\/2024-times-higher-education-world-rankings\/\">2024 <em>Times Higher Education<\/em> World University Rankings<\/a> released in September (<abbr>No<\/abbr>. 57 in the U.S. and in the <abbr>No<\/abbr>. 201&#8211;250 tier worldwide) and the 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/06\/27\/qs-world-university-rankings-manoa\/\"><abbr>QS<\/abbr> World University Rankings<\/a> released in June (<abbr>No<\/abbr>. 66 in the U.S. and <abbr>No<\/abbr>. 386 in the world). For the <em>Forbes<\/em> rankings, the 500 top universities were selected based on the following criteria:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alumni salary (20&#37;)&#8212;<em>Forbes<\/em> used earnings data from Payscale and College Scorecard to determine which colleges produced the highest-paid graduates.<\/li>\n<li>Debt (15&#37;)&#8212;Forbes used two variables from College Scorecard to measure the typical debt load for students at a given college.<\/li>\n<li>Graduation rate (15&#37;)&#8212;Colleges were ranked using the six-year graduation rate.<\/li>\n<li>Forbes American Leaders List (15&#37;)&#8212;This list aims to gauge the leadership and entrepreneurial success of a college\u2019s graduates. <em>Forbes<\/em> counted those from each school who made the most recent <em>Forbes<\/em> 30 Under 30, <em>Forbes<\/em> 400, Richest Self-Made Women and Most Powerful Women lists. <em>Forbes<\/em> also counted the undergraduate alma maters of members of the Presidential cabinet, Supreme Court, Congress and sitting governors, as well as winners of the MacArthur Fellowship, Nobel Prize, Breakthrough Prize, Lasker Prize, Fields Prize, Academy Awards, Oscars, Tony\u2019s, <abbr>NAACP<\/abbr> Awards, Guggenheim Fellowship, Presidential Medals, Pulitzer Prizes and major sport all-stars.<\/li>\n<li>Return on investment (15&#37;)&#8212;This ranking divided the total net price of obtaining a college degree by the post-enrollment earnings boost that students get compared to the typical salary of a high school graduate in their state.<\/li>\n<li>Retention rate (10&#37;)&#8212;Forbes calculated a three-year average retention rate, which measures the percentage of students who choose to stay after their freshman year.<\/li>\n<li>Academic excellence (10&#37;)&#8212;This category was compiled using two measures. First was the number of recent graduates of each college who have gone on to win Fulbright, Truman, Goldwater and Rhodes scholarships. Second was data from the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics to determine the average number of alumni who earned a <abbr title=\"Doctor of Philosophy\">PhD<\/abbr> over the last three years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In its assessment of <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa, <em>Forbes<\/em> recognized that <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr>\u2019s flagship institution is a top producer of political leaders&#8212;among them, U.S. <abbr>Sen<\/abbr>. Tammy Duckworth, Former <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> <abbr>Gov<\/abbr>. and <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> regent Neil Abercrombie, the late U.S. <abbr>Sen<\/abbr>. Daniel Akaka and former U.S. <abbr>Rep<\/abbr>. Colleen Hanabusa.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on rankings, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/miro\/\">M\u0101noa Institutional Research Office website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top 500 universities were selected out of the approximately 2,640 four-year institutions in the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[735,1466,386,631,9],"class_list":["post-184808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-campus-recognition","tag-manoa-enhancing-student-success","tag-manoa-institutional-research","tag-ranking","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184808"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184818,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184808\/revisions\/184818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}