Head of the Class
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Money magazine’s Sept. 6 issue ranks the nation’s Top 100 colleges in terms of costs and academic value. Nine California schools are on the list, but only Caltech in Pasadena ranks among the Top 10. Factors used in determining the rankings include entrance exam results, graduation rates, faculty resources and deployment, budgets for instruction and student services and default ratios on student loans. The magazine then compares those figures to each college’s tuition and fees. Here are the 10 highest-rated schools in the survey, followed by the magazine’s rankings of other California schools in its Top 100:
1. New College of the University of South Florida
2. Rice University (Tex.)
3. Trenton State College (N.J.)
4. State University of New York-Binghamton
5. Northeast Missouri State Univ.
6. Hanover College (Ind.)
7. Rutgers-New Brunswick (N.J.)
8. Caltech
9. Spelman College (Ga.)
10. St. Mary’s College of Maryland
43. Pomona College
46. Claremont McKenna College
50. Harvey Mudd (Claremont)
72. UC Berkeley
84. UCLA
89. Stanford University
91. Scripps College (Claremont)
92. UC Davis
