50 Best Values in Public Colleges

Sort the overall rankings for both in-state students and out-of-state students, cost, quality measures or financial aid measures (how we scored the schools). Then select All States or any number of individual states (hold down the control key as you click to choose more than one), or select All Schools or any number of individual colleges. Clicking on the college names in the table will take you to their Web sites. Most of our data comes from Peterson's, a Nelnet company.

Sort by: In-State 2006 Rank Out-of-State 2006 Rank Enrollment Student/Faculty Ratio 4-year Graduation Rate 6-year Graduation Rate In-State Total Costs In-State Costs After Aid Out-of-State Total Costs Out-of-State Costs After Aid % Met by Aid Average Debt at Graduation State

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Methodology: How the schools were ranked

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