The Wall Street Journal/College Pulse 2024 Best Colleges in the U.S. ranking list is out, and the University of Pennsylvania ranked as the top large school in the Northeast, writes Gerard Yates for The Wall Street Journal.

For the rankings, a school is considered large if they have 10,000 or more undergraduate students.

Penn ranked No. 7 overall nationwide. 

The WSJ/College Pulse rankings are based on three key factors.

They are student outcomes — including measures of graduation rates, graduates’ salaries, and how those salaries offset the cost of attaining an undergraduate degree at each school; the learning environment — including students’ evaluations of their school’s learning facilities and learning opportunities, and how well it prepares them for a career; and the diversity of a school’s students and faculty. 

In addition to Penn’s ranking atop the list of top large colleges in the Northeast, Drexel University found its way to the sixth spot. The school ranked No. 54 overall. 

Read more about the top schools in the nation as determined by the Wall Street Journal/Pulse rankings in The Wall Street Journal.

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