100 Best Values in Private Colleges

View rankings for the top 50 private liberal arts colleges and top 50 private universities. You can sort the schools in our survey by overall rank, 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 schools. Clicking on a school's name in the table will take you to its Web site. Our data comes from Peterson's.

Note:  In cases where the information was not available in a certain category, that school will not appear in the particular sort.

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