Princeton Review’s Best Value Colleges For 2025

2023’s Undergraduate Business Schools To Watch

Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management was ranked P&Q’s second best undergraduate business program for 2025. Meanwhile, its parent Cornell University had Princeton’s Review 12 best return-on-investment for private schools in the U.S.

50 BEST VALUE PRIVATE COLLEGES

For aspiring business majors, eight private schools on Princeton’s ROI list have business schools ranked by Poets&Quants. Those include the No. 1 ranked Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania (11th in ROI) and No. 2 Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University (No. 12 ROI).

Most of the best private schools on Princeton’s list don’t offer undergraduate business degrees. MIT, Stanford, and Columbia, for example, all have excellent business schools, but they are for graduate students.

Princeton Review Best Value Private Colleges
Value Rank	University	Location (City/State)	Full-Time Enrollment	P&Q Ranked B-School	2025 P&Q Rank
1	Princeton University	Princeton, NJ	5813
2	California Institute of Technology	Pasadena, CA	987
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Cambridge, MA	4535
4	Harvey Mudd College	Claremont, CA	921
5	Stanford University	Stanford, CA	8054
6	Columbia University	New York, NY	9134
7	Williams College	Williamstown, MA	2101
8	Harvard College	Cambridge, MA	7038
9	Dartmouth College	Hanover, NH	4570
10	Yale University	New Haven, CT	6818
11	University of Pennsylvania	Philadelphia, PA	10013	The Wharton School	1
12	Cornell University	Ithaca, NY	16128	Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management	2
13	Duke University	Durham, NC	6682
14	Rice University	Houston, TX	4789
15	Washington and Lee University	Lexington, VA	1886
16	Johns Hopkins University	Baltimore, MD	6090
17	Pomona College	Claremont, CA	1766
18	Carnegie Mellon University	Pittsburgh, PA	7824	Tepper School of Business	10
19	Haverford College	Haverford, PA	1431
20	The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art	New York, NY	876
21	Brown University	Providence, RI	7910
22	Wellesley College	Wellesley, MA	2407
23	Claremont McKenna College	Claremont, CA	1390
24	Wesleyan University	Middletown, CT	3805
25	Lehigh University	Bethlehem, PA	5911	College of Business	26
26	Bowdoin College	Brunswick, ME	1881
27	Brigham Young University (UT)	Provo, UT	32221	Marriott School of Business	47
28	Vanderbilt University	Nashville, TN	7152
29	Amherst College	Amherst, MA	1914
30	Washington University in St. Louis	St. Louis, MO	8220	Olin Business School	6
31	Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering	Needham, MA	404
32	Colgate University	Hamilton, NY	3193
33	University of Notre Dame	Notre Dame, IN	8880	Mendoza College of Business	7
34	The University of Chicago	Chicago, IL	7519
35	Carleton College	Northfield, MN	2128
36	Swarthmore College	Swarthmore, PA	1623
37	Lafayette College	Easton, PA	2775
38	Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology	Terre Haute, IN	2315
39	Union College (NY)	Schenectady, NY	2065
40	Wabash College	Crawfordsville, IN	866
41	Babson College	Babson Park, MA	2793
42	Grinnell College	Grinnell, IA	1788
43	St. Olaf College	Northfield, MN	3123
44	Colby College	Waterville, ME	2412
45	Trinity College (CT)	Hartford, CT	2204
46	Trinity University	San Antonio, TX	2518	Neidorff School of Business	27
47	Middlebury College	Middlebury, VT	2760
48	Northwestern University	Evanston, IL	8846
49	Barnard College	New York, NY	3353
50	Tufts University	Medford, MA	6815

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