Top Ten Best Value Schools

The Princeton Review, for 25 years, has been coming out with a list of best value schools, both public and private.

Here’s their newest list of “best value” public schools:

1. New College of Florida
2. Truman State University, Kirksville, Mo.
3. University of North Carolina at Asheville
4. University of Virginia, Charlottesville
5. University of California — Berkeley
6. University of California — San Diego
7. University of California — Santa Cruz
8. University of Minnesota, Morris
9. University of Wisconsin — Madison
10. St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, Md.

And now a drumroll for the “best value” private colleges:

1. Rice Univ. (Houston, TX)
2. Williams College (Williamstown, MA)
3. Grinnell College (Grinnell, IA)
4. Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA)
5. Thomas Aquinas College (Santa Paula, CA)
6. Wabash College (Crawfordsville, IN)
7. Whitman College (Walla Walla, WA)
8. Amherst College (Amherst, MA)
9. Scripps College (Claremont, CA)
10. Harvard College (Cambridge, MA)