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Here are the Rankings of the 'Best Value Colleges' for 2017

4/27/2017

 
Ranking Value Colleges
​There is a raging debate in the country about the value of a college education. Partly, the rising cost of education has prompted this debate. The average cost for a public 4-year college degree is over $80,000 and for private ones are $180,000. The burden of paying for a college education, both for rich and for middle class families, has considerably increased over the past 30 years. Some families find themselves too wealthy to qualify for financial aid, but are too strapped to pay out-of-pocket for college education. This is how federal financial aid works since it is needs based. If you are in this situation, check out our blog that addresses this issue and provides a guide for action.

Plus, given globalization and the slow growth economy worldwide, competition for jobs have intensified. The rising cost of a college education increases debt levels for students, and they struggle to pay the debt for a long time.

How can we empower families to deal with the rising cost of college education? Weighing a college's value has been done using soft metrics like reputation, selectivity and alumni networks. This type of evaluation cedes all power to university admissions algorithms, committees and various pressure groups seeking favors. You may be rich enough to send your kid to the top colleges, but you are not the decision maker.

It's time to challenge the way we look at the college admissions process. We want to empower the students and their families with useful information about the value of their college education.
​We begin with asking questions like, “Which colleges are worth the investment?” instead of, “Which are the best colleges?”

Forbes has published a list of Best Value Colleges of 300 schools that delivers the best return on your investment. The FORBES 2017 Best Value College ranking indexed 300 schools that deliver the best bang for the tuition buck based on tuition costs, school quality, post-grad earnings, student debt and graduation success. The data was collected from the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard as well as PayScale, the world's largest salary database. 

On top of the 'Value List' is the University of California, Berkeley.

Sean Massa spoke with Erin Curley about her experience at UC Berkeley (right). For more videos, you can check out Hillview Prep's 'Thought Leaders' page here.

If you would like to speak with our Thought Leaders, to learn more about their respective colleges, Erin at UC Berkeley, and Sean at Yale, feel free to contact us to set up a call/Skype with them.
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The Top 50 Colleges:

Following is a list to top 50 colleges based on their value. UC Berkeley is the No. 1 Best Value College for the second year in a row, followed by UCLA and Princeton University. There are two more U.Cs in the top 10: UC Irvine and UC Davis. Elite schools like Harvard, MIT and Stanford are also among the top 10.  
Ranking
College Name
Tuition
1
University of California, Berkeley
​$12,972
2
University of California, Los Angeles
$12,705
3
Princeton University
$41,820
4
University of Florida
$6,313
5
Harvard University
$43,938
6
​Massachusetts Institute of Technology
$45,016
7
Stanford University
$45,195
8
University of California, Irvine
$13,179
9
University of California, Davis
$13,896
10
Brigham Young University
$5,000
11
University of California, San Diego
$13,427
12
Duke University
$47,243
13
Yale University
$45,800
14
Rice University
$40,566
15
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
$8,336
16
Amherst College
$48,526
17
Cornell University
$47,286
18
Dartmouth College
$48,108
19
California Institute of Technology
$43,362
20
University of Virginia
​$13,208
21
Georgetown University
$46,744
22
University of California, Santa Barbara
$13,865
23
Brown University
$47,434
24
Vanderbilt University
$43,838
25
Wellesley College
$45,078
26
Williams College
$48,310
27
Pomona College
$45,832
28
University of Chicago
$49,380
29
Haverford College
$47,214
30
University of Washington, Seattle
$12,394
31
University of Maryland, College Park
$9,427
32
Claremont McKenna College
$47,395
33
Northwestern University
$47,251
34
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
​$13,486
35
College of William & Mary
$17,656
36
Emory University
$45,008
37
Barnard College
$46,040
38
Tufts University
$48,643
39
Boston College
$47,436
40
Johns Hopkins University
$47,060
41
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
$15,020
42
Colgate University
$48,175
43
Binghamton University, SUNY
$8,620
44
University of Pennsylvania
$47,668
45
University of Notre Dame
$46,237
46
Middlebury College
$46,044
47
Davidson College
$45,377
48
Columbia University
$51,008
49
Hamilton College
$47,820
50
Vassar College
$49,570
The rest of the top 300 schools can be found here. 
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