re: Forbes America's Best Colleges

Every school teaches the same thing, meaning schools are about jobs. There are maybe 10 schools that will impress companies nation-wide (none of them in the SEC)- these schools can get you a job anywhere. Outside of that, (1) it depends entirely on specialized fields (engineering at TAMU, journalism at Mizzou, etc.) and (2) where you're looking for a job. Graduating from UC Irvine will impress exactly 0 people in Birmingham but graduating from UA will.

Also this list has Berkeley ahead of Stanford, which is a joke. Stanford is one of the schools that will impress everywhere