If your planning to enter college the first thing you must do is to choose your future Alma matter. This is a tough job since college education is not only expensive but will difinetely  shaped your future. Many colleges and universities offer courses and trainings necessary for a brighter career paths but choosing the right one is another thing. Competition and prestige make it more harder. So how will you choose? Choose based on their rankings.

   US colleges and university are being ranked by different  organization  not only for their academic excellence but with several factors that affect its mission in providing education and trainings.

   Forbes's Intertiional released their ranking for the year 2009-2010 of their top 100 US colleges. Topping their list is Princeton University  while Harverd University comes only in third. Private Colleges such as Swartorne College and Williams College ranked 4^th and 5^th respectively. Yale University ranked only 9^th. They based their ranking on student's evaluation of courses and intructors. Another 25% depended upon how many school alumni are listed among notable people in “Who's Who In America” Other factors are average amount of student's debt at graduation who borrowed, another percentage of graduating in 4 year-course and the number of student/faculty who won nationally competative awards. The US news based their ranking according to the missions of the school as defined by factors seeking the highest level of degree conferred by discipline and the quality indicators such as producing good and qaulified graduates. Top US news Colleges are as follows Harvard University taking the top ranked followed by Princeton University, Yale, Standford and Massachussets Institute of Techonolgy. Times' ranking are as follows, Harvard topping the list followed by Yale, Princeton while the bottom list is occuppied by Texas Christian Institute.  Plant Biology  Advice ranking is based on education's cost, population, and percentage of acceptance to the college. Harvard University tops thier list followed by Princeton University ,Massachussets Institute Of Techonolgy,Yale University respectively. Rankings is also based on the grants and available scholarship. Student's evaluation as well as its faculties makes the difference in rankings. You could not say that one beats the other for there are many factors to be considered when rankings is concerned. Harvard University of Cambridge Massachussets consistently topped the list as the best college in the world by Times and Jiao Tong wordwide . Rankings makes the big difference between colleges and universities for they gave more than popularity but of prestige and success in their missions of quality education.

    If you are lucky enough to land in any one of these top colleges, you can be very sure , your college education won't go to waste.