Top 10 best value private colleges for 2009

PR Newswire — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:35:37 +0000

From The Princeton Review

The Princeton Review, one of America’s most widely-known education services and test-prep companies, and USA TODAY, have announced the 100 Best Value Colleges for 2009.

The “Best Value” colleges list, reported on PrincetonReview.com and USAToday.com, features 50 public and 50 private colleges and universities. The Princeton Review selected these institutions as its “best value” choices for 2009 based on its surveys of administrators and students at more than 650 public and private colleges and universities. The selection criteria covered more than 30 factors in three areas: academics, costs of attendance, and financial aid, using the most recently reported data from each institution for its 2007-08 academic year.

The Princeton Review “Top 10 Best Value Private Colleges for 2009″ are:

1. Swarthmore College (Swarthmore PA)

2. Harvard College (Cambridge MA)

3. Princeton University (Princeton NJ)

4. Rice University (Houston TX)

5. Yale University (New Haven CT)

6. Williams College (Williamstown MA)

7. Amherst College (Amherst, MA)

8. California Institute of Technology (Pasadena CA)

9. Pomona College (Claremont CA)

10. Stanford University (Stanford CA)

To view in-depth details about the schools, go to The Princeton Review online, or to USAToday.com.

Source: The Princeton Review

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U.S. News best colleges

Bill Sullivan — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:25:31 +0000

Where can you get the best education? Which schools offer the best bang for your buck? Who are the up and comers, and where can an average student fit in best?

U.S. News and World Report is out with its annual listing of “America’s Best Colleges,” a ranking sure to thrill and infuriate teachers and administrators all around the country. If you are making plans yourself, or scoping out where your offspring might best spend those all-important four (or more) years, its a good place to start.

Here are the Top 25 National Universities, acccording to U.S. News:

1. Harvard

2. Princeton

3. Yale

T4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

T4. Stanford

T6. California Institute of Technology

T6. University of Pennsylvania

T8. Columbia

T8. Duke

T8. University of Chicago

11. Dartmouth