Best Value Colleges

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

Showing 51–100 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
51	Seminary Bnos Chaim	Lakewood, New Jersey	Private nonprofit	72.4	70.0
52	Gnomon	North Hollywood, California	Private for-profit	72.4	68.7
53	United International College	Dania Beach, Florida	Private for-profit	72.1	67.7
54	Duke University	Durham, North Carolina	Private nonprofit	72.0	86.6
55	Elyon College	Brooklyn, New York	Private nonprofit	72.0	67.6
56	Villanova University	Villanova, Pennsylvania	Private nonprofit	71.8	80.9
57	United States Air Force Academy	USAF Academy, Colorado	Public	71.6	76.9
58	Dartmouth College	Hanover, New Hampshire	Private nonprofit	71.5	86.3
59	Williams College	Williamstown, Massachusetts	Private nonprofit	71.4	83.2
60	Bucknell University	Lewisburg, Pennsylvania	Private nonprofit	71.4	75.7
61	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Madison, Wisconsin	Public	70.9	68.7
62	The Landing School	Arundel, Maine	Private nonprofit	70.9	66.9
63	Galaxy Medical College	North Hollywood, California	Private for-profit	70.8	66.6
64	Brown University	Providence, Rhode Island	Private nonprofit	70.7	85.4
65	Kettering University	Flint, Michigan	Private nonprofit	70.7	58.2
66	Faith Theological Seminary and Christian College	Tampa, Florida	Private nonprofit	70.6	66.5
67	Helene Fuld College of Nursing	New York, New York	Private nonprofit	70.5	71.5
68	College of the Holy Cross	Worcester, Massachusetts	Private nonprofit	70.3	78.8
69	Northwestern University	Evanston, Illinois	Private nonprofit	70.2	84.0
70	Infinity College	Lafayette, Louisiana	Private for-profit	70.2	66.1
71	Bates College	Lewiston, Maine	Private nonprofit	70.1	76.0
72	Colorado School of Mines	Golden, Colorado	Public	70.1	67.2
73	University of Portland	Portland, Oregon	Private nonprofit	70.1	54.2
74	Digital Media Institute	Shreveport, Louisiana	Private nonprofit	70.0	71.0
75	Dominican University of California	San Rafael, California	Private nonprofit	70.0	53.9
76	United States Naval Academy	Annapolis, Maryland	Public	69.9	76.7
77	Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology	Terre Haute, Indiana	Private nonprofit	69.8	65.0
78	SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University	Brooklyn, New York	Public	69.8	63.9
79	Clarkson University	Potsdam, New York	Private nonprofit	69.8	58.3
80	West Coast University-Orange County	Anaheim, California	Private for-profit	69.7	64.2
81	Rice University	Houston, Texas	Private nonprofit	69.6	83.3
82	Southern Methodist University	Dallas, Texas	Private nonprofit	69.6	62.8
83	University of California-Santa Barbara	Santa Barbara, California	Public	69.4	71.4
84	Yeshiva Gedola Tiferes Yaakov Yitzchok	Lakewood, New Jersey	Private nonprofit	69.4	65.9
85	Johns Hopkins University	Baltimore, Maryland	Private nonprofit	69.3	82.7
86	Lafayette College	Easton, Pennsylvania	Private nonprofit	69.1	75.5
87	Occidental College	Los Angeles, California	Private nonprofit	69.1	67.9
88	West Coast University-Ontario	Ontario, California	Private for-profit	69.1	63.7
89	Northeastern University	Boston, Massachusetts	Private nonprofit	69.0	83.2
90	Curtis Institute of Music	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Private nonprofit	69.0	76.7
91	New York Seminary	Brooklyn, New York	Private nonprofit	68.8	60.4
92	University of Virginia-Main Campus	Charlottesville, Virginia	Public	68.7	80.3
93	Kenyon College	Gambier, Ohio	Private nonprofit	68.7	70.2
94	Bryn Mawr College	Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania	Private nonprofit	68.7	70.0
95	Saint Michael College of Allied Health	Washington, District of Columbia	Private for-profit	68.7	61.7
96	Marquette University	Milwaukee, Wisconsin	Private nonprofit	68.7	55.3
97	Connecticut College	New London, Connecticut	Private nonprofit	68.6	68.0
98	Milwaukee School of Engineering	Milwaukee, Wisconsin	Private nonprofit	68.6	61.6
99	Davidson College	Davidson, North Carolina	Private nonprofit	68.5	78.3
100	University of Chicago	Chicago, Illinois	Private nonprofit	68.3	84.6

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