Princeton Review Names America’s ‘Best Value’ Colleges
in Annual Book
Princeton Review
4/24/07
Rice Univ. #1 ‘Best Value’ Private College / New College
of Florida #1 ‘Best Value’ Public College
NEW YORK, April 24 — According to The Princeton Review, Rice
University is the nation’s “best value” private college,
while New College of Florida is (for the second consecutive year)
the “best value” public college. The schools hold #1 spots
on the top 10 private / top 10 public “best value” colleges
ranking lists in the new 2008 edition of its annual book “America’s
Best Value Colleges” (Random House / Princeton Review, $18.95),
on sale today. The book profiles 165 schools the New York-based
education services company recommends as the best undergraduate
education deals this year.
Said Robert Franek, Princeton Review VP-Publishing, “Families
searching for colleges with excellent academics, generous financial
aid packages and / or relatively low costs of attendance will find
outstanding choices in this book. We selected the 165 schools for
this edition and its two top 10 ranking lists based on data we collected
from 650 institutions during the 2005-2006 academic year and our
surveys of students attending them. To winnow our list of “best
values,” we considered more than 30 factors in four areas:
academics, tuition, financial aid and student borrowing.”
The book’s “Top 10 Best Value Private Colleges”
are:
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).
The book’s “Top 10 Best Value Public Colleges” are:
1. New College of Florida (Sarasota, FL)
2. Truman State Univ. (Kirksville, MO)
3. Univ. of North Carolina (Asheville, NC)
4. Univ. of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA)
5. Univ. of California - Berkeley
6. Univ. of California - San Diego
7. Univ. of California - Santa Cruz
8. Univ. of Minnesota - Morris
9. Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison
10. St. Mary’s College of Maryland (St. Mary’s City, MD)
The Princeton Review doesn’t rank the schools in the book
overall, 1 to 165. The company today posted a list of the schools
in the book by state on its site http://www.princetonreview.com
at which users can search Princeton Review’s other college
rankings. The company surveys 115,000 students whose ratings of
their colleges determine the “Top 20” rankings in 60 categories
in Princeton Review’s “Best 361 Colleges” book published
each August. Its survey of college applicants and parents of applicants
reports their “Top 10 Dream Colleges” each March.
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It is not affiliated with Princeton University or ETS.
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