{"id":5901,"date":"2017-08-03T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T23:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about-hmc\/?p=5901"},"modified":"2017-08-03T16:27:22","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T23:27:22","slug":"harvey-mudd-jumps-forbes-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/2017\/08\/03\/harvey-mudd-jumps-forbes-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvey Mudd Jumps in Forbes Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harvey Mudd College ranked No. 18 in Forbes\u2019 annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/carolinehoward\/2017\/08\/02\/americas-top-colleges-2017\/?ss=education#33abd55335bf\">America\u2019s Top Colleges list<\/a>, climbing 41 spots from last year\u2019s 59<sup>th<\/sup> position.<\/p>\n<p>Forbes also placed Harvey Mudd at No. 3 on its Top 25 STEM Colleges list and No. 5 among the nation\u2019s liberal arts colleges.<\/p>\n<p>Forbes editor Caroline Howard attributed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/carolinehoward\/2017\/08\/02\/the-many-faces-of-harvey-mudd\/#4ff06774f434\">Harvey Mudd\u2019s high ratings<\/a> to its \u201cintimate 800-person campus beautifully situated at the base of Southern California&#8217;s San Gabriel Mountains along with the other Claremont Consortium colleges, its small class sizes and its greater diversity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Howard also noted that according to PayScale, an online compensation data company, Mudd graduates earn higher early and mid-career salaries than peers from Stanford, University of Pennsylvania and Harvard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/cartercoudriet\/2017\/08\/02\/top-colleges-2017-the-methodology\/#5be74deae44a\">Forbes\u2019 methodology<\/a> is based on what the magazine considers a college\u2019s effectiveness: post-graduate earnings, amount of student debt, retention and graduation rates and student experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvey Mudd College ranked No. 18 in Forbes\u2019 annual America\u2019s Top Colleges list, climbing 41 spots from last year\u2019s 59th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":4816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[967],"class_list":["post-5901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-feed"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}