The Daily Beast Names New College of Florida #3 in list of “20 Colleges Worth the Price”

The Daily Beast, the news and culture webzine created by CNBC television talk show host and Washington Post correspondent Tina Brown, set out to find the top 20 best college values this year. Talking to higher-education experts, high-school guidance counselors and college consultants, they generated a list of schools experts say are worth the expense. To winnow the field and rank the contenders, they placed academic qualifications—such as GPAs, SAT scores, student-faculty ratios, faculty degrees and graduation rates—against the bottom line of tuition and fees. New College of Florida came in third, after University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Harvard University and before Rice University and Swarthmore College.

Here’s a look at the Daily Beast’s complete list of colleges and universities where you’ll get the best bang for your buck in the coming year:
1. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2. Harvard University, 3. New College of Florida,
4. Rice University, 5. Swarthmore College, 6. Cooper Union, 7. University of Virginia, 8. California Institute of Technology, 9. United States Naval Academy, 10. Brigham Young University, 11. College of William & Mary, 12. Webb Institute, 13. Pomona College, 14. The SUNY system, 15. Cornell University, 16. Yale University, 17. University of Georgia, 18. Centre College, 19. Vanderbilt University, 20. The College of New Jersey.

To read the entire article, go to http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-03-23/20-colleges-worth-the-price/.

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