Wall Street Journal’s 2025 Best Colleges In America

by: Kristy Bleizeffer on September 05, 2024 | 116,606 Views

SCHOOLS RANKED FOR BEST VALUE

WSJ’s Best Value ranking looks at how quickly the difference between a school’s graduates’ salaries and those of comparable high-school graduates pays back the average net price of four years of study, or “Years to pay off net price.”

Here, Baruch College, CUNY, scored highest here with a perfect 100 for value. It has an average net price of $3,644 with a value added graduate salary of $45,354. Its “years to pay off net price” is three months.

Public schools made up 14 of the top 20 in the category.

WSJ/College Pulse Top 20 For Best Value
Rank
School
State
Type
Score
1 Baruch College, CUNY NY Public 100
2 Hunter College, CUNY NY Public 99.9
3 Princeton University NJ Private 99.8
4 City College of New York, CUNY NY Public 99.7
5 Brooklyn College, CUNY NY Public 99.5
6 Stanford University CA Private 99.3
7 University of Florida FL Public 99.1
8 Queens College, CUNY NY Public 99
9 Berea College KY Private 98.9
10 California State University, Stanislaus CA Public 98.8
11 California Institute of Technology CA Private 98.6
12 Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA Private 98.5
13 Florida State University FL Public 98.4
14 California State University, Los Angeles CA Public 98.3
15 Georgia Institute of Technology, Main Campus GA Public 98.2
16 California State University, Fresno CA Public 97.8
17 California State University, Fullerton CA Public 97.7
18 Missouri University of Science and Technology MO Public 97.5
19 Rice University TX Private 97.4
20 University of California, Irvine CA Public 97.2

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