Forbes has Michigan as No. 7 Public School

Surely Forbes updated in the last year of more since this is 2016. EDIT: I see the 2017 version pasted earlier in the thread. Still, the OP should update the link and headline.

Sorry but the couple of kids I knew in high school who went to service academies were nowhere near the half dozen of us who went to Michigan. Academically speaking. Not even close.

that's okay!

Seems low. Georgia Tech should also be a lot higher.

They went super hard with the service acadamies.  Take them out along with W&M and Michigan is sitting third.

Looks like the fake classes at UNC don’t hurt their rankings. Go figure.

Most college rankings are pretty stupid, but it makes no sense to include the service academies in this list. 

or is Florida being in the top 15 a surprise (and ahead of Texas)?

Good company. I've always heard Michigan-Virginia-Berkeley-UCLA-UNC as the top publics, and that is true certainly insofar as academic reputation is concerned. W&M and the service academies aren't doing nearly the same thing (research, PhDs, ass-kicking). 

Utterly worthless information.

Complete and utter clickbait with no redeeming qualities.

Hey, some sweet, sweet validation for yours truly. Feels good man.

I loved my undergrad time at W&M, and I've really liked my grad school experience at Michigan, but there's certainly some major differences between the two.

W&M not having engineering or med programs definitely hindered the academics. But I feel like I wouldn't have done as well socially or academically as an undergrad here as I did at W&M because UM is such a big school, I think I would have been too overwhelmed.

It was a massive change for me, going from a place with ~7,000 total students and a quaint campus you can walk across in 15 minutes to somewhere with ~40,000 students with multiple campuses and multiple schools of study. To me, it's a completely different sense of community and identity here vs. at W&M, not necessarily worse or better, but I think it can affect people in varied ways.

Forbes sucks. That said, go blue.

I've seen the summary before and it sort of bugs me that is says Madonna was a Michigan Grad. She dropped out of U of M and moved to NYC in the 77/78 school year timeframe. I do remember meeting here Spring 77 at a party on North Campus she was sitting on the floor consuming a beer, her name was distinctive something one does not forget and she had the most Noticeable eye brows.