据报道，福布斯将毕业率、学生成绩和满意度、负债水平低和毕业生成功率作为评估全美高校的指标。福布斯总编辑内尔（Michael Noer）说，普林斯顿在所有方面都做得很好。

According to the report，Forbes will graduation rates、Student performance and satisfaction、Debt levels low success rate and graduates of colleges and universities across the United States as evaluation index。Forbes editor Neil（Michael Noer）said，Princeton in all respects do very well。

　　内尔表示，普林斯顿从新生到二年级学生保持比例最高。此外，普林斯顿校友知名度也很高。同时，内尔指出，尽管普林斯顿学费相当高，但普林斯顿负债水平排名倒数第七，毕业率排名第五。

Neil said，Princeton from new to the second grade students keep the highest ratio。In addition，Princeton alumni popularity is also very high。At the same time，Neil points out that，Although Princeton tuition quite high，But Princeton debt levels bottom ranked seventh，Graduation rates ranked in the top five。

　　报道称，芝加哥大学、耶鲁大学进入福布斯网站最新排名榜的前五名。全美另外两所常青藤大学哈佛大学和纽约哥伦比亚大学分别排名第六和第八。

Reports say，University of Chicago、Yale university into the web site of the latest rankings before five。The two other ivies university Harvard University and Columbia University in New York, ranked the sixth and eighth, respectively。

　　这次排名讨论中的一项突出话题是美国高校开支明显上涨。内尔说，获得四年制学位的学费和其它开支很容易超过10万美元（约合人民币63.7万元）。

This ranks of a prominent discussion topic is the United States rise apparently college expenses。Said Nell，Get four-year degree tuition and other expenses is very easy to more than 100000 dollars（637000 yuan）。

　　内尔说，从开支方面能看出美国高等教育的危机。他说，现在一个本科生学位总开支很容易超过25万美元。问题是，高等教育投入那么多值不值。这次排名就是试图回答那个问题。不过，根据现有数据，排名靠前的高校看来投入很值。

Said Nell，From spending American higher education can see the crisis。He said，Now a undergraduate degree total spending is easy to more than 250000 dollars。The problem is，Higher education put so much worth。This ranking is to try to answer that question。but，According to the existing data，The top universities in the seems very value。