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UW-Eau Claire Moves Up In Forbes’ List of America’s Top Colleges
17 Sep 2026
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In Forbes’ 19th iteration of the “America’s Top Colleges” ranking, just one Chippewa Valley university cracked the 500-school list: the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
Coming in at No. 280 – up three places from last year’s list – UW-Eau Claire’s new chancellor, Dr. Ed Martini, pointed to “the collaboration at the heart of faculty-mentored undergraduate research” as one key element of the institution’s inclusion and ranking.
As Forbes states in the list’s introduction, higher education in the U.S. faces “ever greater scrutiny” as attendance costs grow, federal student loan borrowing limits lower, artificial intelligence disrupts the post-graduate job market and more.
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