The Princeton Review: Best Value Colleges 2009

USA TODAY Presents: The Princeton Review Best Value Colleges The Best Value Colleges were selected based upon institutional data and student opinion surveys collected from the fall of 2007 through fall of 2008. Broadly speaking, the factors we weighed covered undergraduate academics, costs and financial aid.  Additionally, we considered the percentage of graduating seniors who borrowed from any loan program and the average dollar amount of debt those students had at graduation.  Learn more about our best value colleges methodology.

TOP 10 PRIVATE 1. Swarthmore College(Swarthmore, Pa.) 2. Harvard College(Cambridge, Mass.) 3. Princeton University(Princeton, N.J.) 4. Rice University(Houston, Texas) 5. Yale University (New Haven, Conn.) 6. Williams College (Williamstown, Mass.) 7. Amherst College (Amherst, Mass.) 8. California Institute of Technology(Pasadena) 9. Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.) 10. Stanford University (Stanford, Calif.) PUBLIC 1. University of Virginia (Charlottesville) 2. New College of Florida (Sarasota) 3. College of William & Mary (Williamsburg, Va.) 4. State University of New York-Binghamton 5. Florida State University (Tallahassee) 6. North Carolina State University (Raleigh) 7. University of California San Diego 8. City University of New York -- Hunter College (New York, N.Y.) 9. University of Georgia (Athens) 10. The College of New Jersey (Ewing) Source: The Princeton Review

Hunter #8! 

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