The 24 best public colleges in America
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Cornell University, which operates both as a public and private university, earned our top spot for best public school in the country.
Here, we've narrowed down our results to look at the best public schools in the country.
To determine the rankings, we asked over 1,000 Business Insider readers to choose the colleges that best prepare their students for success after graduation. We then combined those results with each school's average SAT score from the college-data website College Board and the median starting salary from the employer-information website PayScale to come up with the final ranking. You can read the full methodology here.
Please note that this list drew from our original survey on the best colleges in the US, where survey respondents chose from a limited pool of what we perceived to be the top 100 schools in the US.
Did your school make the cut this year? Read on to find out.
Find out how your salary stacks up on PayScale.
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