California State University, Fresno ranks highest among the CSU campuses in Forbes magazine’s “America’s Best Colleges.”

Fresno State was 339th on the Forbes ranking of 569 schools. There are more than 2,700 public and private four-year colleges in the country.

Forbes used five categories for the ranking: alumni in the “2008 Who’s Who in America,” student evaluations of faculty from
Ratemyprofessors.com, four-year graduation rates, students and faculty receiving nationally competitive awards and average four-year accumulated student debt.

The Forbes story is at www.forbes.com/2008/08/13/college-university-rankings-oped-college08-cx_
rv_mn_0813intro.html.