Top Public College Values
If you're searching for the right college or grad school, there are an overwhelming number of resources from which to choose. Books, web sites, brochures, emails, parents, friends, drunk guys in alley ways, etc. A great resource is the CollegeRecruiter.com School Finder, which asks you a few easy questions and then matches your interests with the offerings of hundreds of public and private on-line and traditional colleges and graduate schools. Regardless of which resource you use, however, you always want to weigh each school against its closest competitors. A great way to do that is to use Kiplinger's annual list of top public colleges as measured by their value.
So which are the top schools? Some are no surprise because of the superb education that they offer to their students, such as this year's top pick, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Other schools will be more surprising, especially for those who believe that everything west of the Hudson River and east Los Angeles is "fly over" country.
The list of the best 100 post-secondary colleges, universities, and grad schools by value are:
1 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2 University of Florida
3 University of Virginia
4 The College of William and Mary
5 New College of Florida
6 University of Georgia
7 State University of New York College at Geneseo
8 University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign
9 State University of New York at Binghamton
10 University of Washington
11 University of California, San Diego
12 University of California, Berkeley
13 University of Delaware
14 University of California, Los Angeles
15 University of Wisconsin - Madison
16 University of Michigan
17 James Madison University
18 University of Maryland, College Park
19 The College of New Jersey
20 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
21 Florida State University
22 University of Mary Washington
23 Truman State University
24 Clemson University
25 Texas A&M University
26 University of Colorado at Boulder
27 The University of Texas at Austin
28 North Carolina State University
29 University of Connecticut
30 Georgia Institute of Technology
31 University of South Carolina
32 The University of North Carolina at Wilmington
33 Appalachian State University
34 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick/Piscataway
35 Stony Brook University, State University of New York
36 University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
37 St. Mary's College of Maryland
38 Miami University
39 Purdue University
40 University of Central Florida
41 New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
42 University of Pittsburgh
43 The Pennsylvania State University University Park Campus
44 University of California, Santa Barbara
45 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
46 University at Albany, State University of New York
47 The University of Iowa
48 The University of Tennessee
49 Florida International University
50 The University of North Carolina at Asheville
51 Colorado School of Mines
52 Indiana University Bloomington
53 Mississippi University for Women
54 Murray State University
55 University of Minnesota, Morris
56 College of Charleston
57 Millersville University of Pennsylvania
58 University of California, Davis
59 University of California, Santa Cruz
60 University of Missouri - Columbia
61 State University of New York, Fredonia
62 Salisbury University
63 University of Missouri - Rolla
64 University of Oklahoma
65 University of Vermont
66 The University of Texas at Dallas
67 University of Kansas
68 The University of Alabama
69 University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
70 University of California, Irvine
71 Iowa State University of Science and Technology
72 University of Arkansas
73 Colorado State University
74 University of Nebraska - Lincoln
75 The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
76 University of Kentucky
77 University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
78 University of Hawaii at Manoa
79 The Ohio State University
80 University of New Hampshire
81 University of Massachusetts Amherst
82 Auburn University
83 Illinois State University
84 State University of New York at Plattsburgh
85 Kansas State University
86 The University of Arizona
87 Ramapo College of New Jersey
88 Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
89 Oklahoma State University
90 State University of New York at New Paltz
91 Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
92 Georgia College & State University
93 Mississippi State University
94 Michigan State University
95 Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
96 Washington State University
97 University of Northern Iowa
98 University of Utah
99 Rowan University
100 University of Oregon
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