Every year, Wall St Journal puts out a list of the best colleges in the United States and this year, Michigan showed out. In fact, there were a total of 18 colleges and universities ranked on the list of almost 600 schools. Alongside those two, Michigan State University, Michigan Technological University, and Kettering University were ranked inside of the top 200 at 114, 163, and 198 respectively. 584Northern Michigan University managed to just squeeze onto this list as they are the last school ranking at 584. Standford, Yale, and Princeton were all ranked in the top 5 with Stanford being considered the best college in America.