Best Value Colleges

Colleges offering the best return on investment, weighing graduation outcomes and earnings against costs.

Showing 1–50 of 3,663 colleges

Overall Best Value Top Earnings Most Selective Graduation Rate Best Public Best Private Largest

Rank	College	Location	Type	Value Score	Composite
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Cambridge, Massachusetts	Private nonprofit	97.5	97.6
2	Franklin W Olin College of Engineering	Needham, Massachusetts	Private nonprofit	96.1	92.0
3	Georgetown University	Washington, District of Columbia	Private nonprofit	88.9	89.4
4	University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis	Saint Louis, Missouri	Private nonprofit	85.7	70.0
5	Harvey Mudd College	Claremont, California	Private nonprofit	82.6	91.6
6	University of California-Berkeley	Berkeley, California	Public	82.6	85.2
7	California Institute of Technology	Pasadena, California	Private nonprofit	82.0	94.2
8	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Troy, New York	Private nonprofit	81.8	72.1
9	Babson College	Wellesley, Massachusetts	Private nonprofit	81.5	89.5
10	University of Pennsylvania	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Private nonprofit	79.7	91.9
11	Princeton University	Princeton, New Jersey	Private nonprofit	79.5	92.1
12	Bentley University	Waltham, Massachusetts	Private nonprofit	79.4	80.2
13	Carnegie Mellon University	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	Private nonprofit	79.1	89.7
14	MCPHS University	Boston, Massachusetts	Private nonprofit	79.1	62.1
15	Stanford University	Stanford, California	Private nonprofit	77.3	93.2
16	Jewish Theological Seminary of America	New York, New York	Private nonprofit	77.3	72.4
17	Wellesley College	Wellesley, Massachusetts	Private nonprofit	77.2	80.7
18	California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo	San Luis Obispo, California	Public	77.2	76.4
19	University of California-Los Angeles	Los Angeles, California	Public	77.1	82.1
20	Claremont McKenna College	Claremont, California	Private nonprofit	76.2	87.1
21	Union College	Schenectady, New York	Private nonprofit	75.9	71.8
22	University of California-San Diego	La Jolla, California	Public	75.6	76.7
23	Stevens Institute of Technology	Hoboken, New Jersey	Private nonprofit	75.0	78.1
24	Santa Clara University	Santa Clara, California	Private nonprofit	75.0	77.9
25	Samuel Merritt University	Oakland, California	Private nonprofit	75.0	67.5
26	Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Private nonprofit	75.0	67.5
27	Roseman University of Health Sciences	Henderson, Nevada	Private nonprofit	75.0	67.5
28	Academy of Interactive Entertainment	Lafayette, Louisiana	Private nonprofit	75.0	62.7
29	St. John Vianney College Seminary	Miami, Florida	Private nonprofit	75.0	57.5
30	Ohel Margulia Seminary	Monsey, New York	Private nonprofit	74.5	59.2
31	Yale University	New Haven, Connecticut	Private nonprofit	74.4	88.6
32	Washington and Lee University	Lexington, Virginia	Private nonprofit	74.4	83.2
33	Lehigh University	Bethlehem, Pennsylvania	Private nonprofit	74.3	81.2
34	Cornell University	Ithaca, New York	Private nonprofit	74.2	87.9
35	Colby College	Waterville, Maine	Private nonprofit	74.2	80.4
36	Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus	Atlanta, Georgia	Public	74.1	84.5
37	Vanderbilt University	Nashville, Tennessee	Private nonprofit	73.6	84.3
38	United States Merchant Marine Academy	Kings Point, New York	Public	73.6	72.7
39	Columbia University in the City of New York	New York, New York	Private nonprofit	73.5	88.4
40	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Worcester, Massachusetts	Private nonprofit	73.5	72.5
41	Harvard University	Cambridge, Massachusetts	Private nonprofit	73.4	89.2
42	CAAN Academy of Nursing	Matteson, Illinois	Private nonprofit	73.3	68.6
43	University of Notre Dame	Notre Dame, Indiana	Private nonprofit	73.1	86.1
44	Boston College	Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts	Private nonprofit	73.0	84.3
45	Saint Joseph's University - Philadelphia	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Private nonprofit	72.9	58.5
46	Carleton College	Northfield, Minnesota	Private nonprofit	72.7	75.4
47	University of California-Irvine	Irvine, California	Public	72.7	74.3
48	Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences	Albany, New York	Private nonprofit	72.7	68.6
49	Los Angeles County College of Nursing and Allied Health	Los Angeles, California	Public	72.7	65.9
50	University of California-Davis	Davis, California	Public	72.5	70.0

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