Forbes.com Ranks Simmons College One of America's Best Colleges for 2008.

Forbes.com has ranked Simmons College (www.simmons.edu) as one of "America's Best Colleges" in its 2008 inaugural ranking of undergraduate colleges and universities (see also Simmons College).

The list, which will be published annually, ranks 569 of the nearly 4,000 undergraduate institutions in the nation (the top 15 percent), using methodology that the Forbes.com editors say "attempts to put itself in a student's shoes," basing their ranking on "the quality of the education they provide, and how much their students achieve."

Simmons College is a small private university located in the heart of Boston. It includes a pioneering undergraduate college for women, and graduate programs for women and men in health sciences, social work, management, library and information science, education, liberal arts, and communications management.

Forbes.com ranked schools in conjunction with the Center for College Affordability and Productivity (CCAP) and Dr. Richard Vedder, an economist at Ohio University.

The CCAP staff gathered data from a variety of sources: 25 percent of the rankings are based on student evaluations of courses and instructors recorded on ...