In its ninth annual list of Best Value Colleges, the Princeton Review and USA Today have named the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill the nation’s best value in a public college and Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., the country’s best value in a private college. The list, released Feb. 7, evaluates undergraduate educational programs only, based on academics, financial aid, and cost of attendance.
UNC-Chapel Hill, which also topped Kiplinger’s best value list released in January, has an enrollment of more than 18,000 students and offers certificates, bachelor’s, and master’s degrees. While in-state tuition is a relatively low $5,128, according to Princeton Review, out-of-state tuition is nearly $25,000, and 64% of undergraduate students receive financial aid. Rounding out the top 10 public schools featured on the best values list are: University of Virginia, New College of Florida, State University of New York at Binghamton, University of Wisconsin-Madison, College of William and Mary, University of Florida-Gainesville, University of Georgia-Athens, University of Washington-Seattle, and the University of Texas at Austin. Many of those also topped Kiplinger’s list.
Williams College is a liberal arts college in the northwest corner of Massachusetts, about 40 miles east of Albany, N.Y. Its enrollment is just more than 2,000 students, with a tuition of nearly $43,000 and 53% of students receiving need-based financial aid. The other private schools rounding out the top 10 list are: Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, Princeton University in New Jersey, with which the Princeton Review has no affiliation, Harvard College in Massachusetts, Rice University in Texas, Pomona College in California, Washington University in Missouri, Yale University in Connecticut, California Institute of Technology in California, and Hamilton College in New York.
The entire list features 150 schools—75 public and 75 private—with California boasting the most schools on the list.
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