Cal Poly has been ranked one of Forbes’ Top 25 Public Colleges as part of the magazine’s

Overall, Cal Poly was 55th in the nation — up from 57th in 2024 and No. 83 in 2023 — among the 500 ranked public and private not-for-profit universities in the U.S.

The rankings, which were released on Aug. 26, looked beyond the Ivy League.

Its top school was Massachusetts Institute of Technology of Boston.

Also in the top five were Columbia University in New York, Princeton University of New Jersey, Stanford University, and the University of California, Berkeley.

Among public and private institutions in California, Cal Poly ranked 12th overall for the second consecutive year.

It also ranked seventh among public schools, behind University of California campuses at Berkeley, Los Angeles, San D

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