The staff at CCAP gather data from a variety of sources and use 11 measures in compiling the rankings.

FORBES: Careers

Free PDF downloads of each individual chapter, the entire 234 page report, or a 43 page summary of the report, are available on the CCAP website.

FORBES: Attacking Higher Ed Cost Inflation: Reform Academic Employment Policies

As nearly all prospective college students know, colleges rarely miss an opportunity to trumpet favorable recognition they receive from national publications (like Forbes, whose college rankings are compiled by CCAP).

FORBES: Why We Need College Rankings

Forbes and CCAP's rankings are not determined largely by reputation, like many other college rankings, and our list emphasizes the quality of students a school graduates, not the quality it admits.

FORBES: Magazine Article

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FORBES: Play Hard, Work Little: Life on America's College Campuses

Horowitz elaborates that profits in the education sector can be expected to promote competition and innovation that lead to an increase in the quality of educational provision, better value for the customer, and a more efficient allocation of resources, a point that CCAP elaborated on it is 2010 study, For-Profit Higher Education: Growth, Innovation and Regulation.

FORBES: Harnessing the Profit Motive to Transform Education

The letter, written by Andrew Davis of Illinois Student Assistance Commission, criticized some work done by CCAP which claimed to show that, once you take graduation rates into account, a school like Chicago State (a school with relatively low levels of per student spending on education) is actually more expensive than Northwestern (a school with high levels of per student spending).

FORBES: Spending More to Save