The 24 best public colleges in America
Cornell University/FacebookCornell University, which operates both as a public and private university, earned our top spot for best public school in the country.
We recently released our seventh annual list of the best colleges in America, which included schools from every corner of the US.Here, we've narrowed down our results to look at the best public schools in the country.
To determine the rankings, we asked over 1,000 Business Insider readers to choose the colleges that best prepare their students for success after graduation. We then combined those results with each school's average SAT score from the college-data website College Board and the median starting salary from the employer-information website PayScale to come up with the final ranking. You can read the full methodology here.
Please note that this list drew from our original survey on the best colleges in the US, where survey respondents chose from a limited pool of what we perceived to be the top 100 schools in the US.
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