The publication asked over 1,000 Business Insider readers to choose the colleges that best prepare their students for success after graduation. Then BI 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.

Probably no real surprise that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ranked #1 overall.

But how about when the list is narrowed down to the Northeast region of the US? The United States Military Academy came in at very respectable #12. According to the BI report, their SAT score was 1880 and the median starting salary of a USMA grad was $75,100.

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Getting into the Military Academy at West Point, located in the eponymous New York town, is no small feat: The Academy accepts only about 9% of applicants. For accepted students, each major — ranging from American politics to nuclear engineering — is specifically tailored to train "officer-leaders of character to serve the Army and the Nation.

Looks like Vassar College in Poughkeepsie also did quite well, as they came in at #34 of the best colleges in the northeast. Their average SAT score is 2110, though their median starting salary data was unavailable, according to the report.

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Originally a women's college, Vassar now provides both men and women with a top-notch liberal-arts education, and is ranked the No. 11 best liberal-arts college in the country by US News.

 

In addition to internships and study abroad programs, more than 500 students from the Poughkeepsie, New York-based school participate in a semester of field work, where they are placed in community organizations, nonprofits, government agencies, human services organizations, and businesses, typically in the Poughkeepsie area.

Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville also showed up on the list at #47.

 

 

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