For the third year running, Forbes magazine has named the University of Virginia a “New Ivy.”
To make its determination, the media outlet compiled a list of all four-year, degree-granting public and private nonprofit colleges across the United States – minus the traditional Ivy League schools, including Harvard, Princeton and Yale universities.
“A growing number of employers had become skeptical that graduates of these ‘Ancient Eight’ universities necessarily made the best and hardest working recruits,” Forbes said.
The outlet also removed what it called “Ivy-plus” schools, like Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Johns Hopkins University. To make the finalist list, universities had to enroll at least 3,000 students and be deemed “selective” in their admissions.
“The public colleges’ admissions rate was 50% or less,” Forbes wrote, noting that at least half of school entrants had to submit SAT or ACT scores.
