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Unrelated: List of "Best Value Colleges 2010"
For the second consecutive year, The Princeton Review (Nasdaq: REVU), one of America's most widely known education services and test-prep companies, has teamed up with USA TODAY, the nation's most widely read print newspaper, to present a list of the 100 "Best Value Colleges" of the year.
The Princeton Review's 100 "Best Value Colleges" list for 2010 is based on data compiled and analyzed by The Princeton Review, the education services and test-prep company known for its annual college listings.
Following are the top 20 colleges or universities according to the Princeton Review.
TOP 20 'VALUE' PICKS
Public Institutions
- University of Virginia (Charlottesville)
- City University of New York - Hunter College (New York, N.Y.)
- New College of Florida (Sarasota)
- Florida State University (Tallahassee)
- University of Colorado-Boulder
- State University of New York-Binghamton
- University of Georgia (Athens)
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Blacksburg)
- Texas A&M University (College Station)
- University of Oklahoma (Norman)
- Swarthmore College(Swarthmore, Pa.)
- Harvard College(Cambridge, Mass.)
- Wesleyan College(Macon, Ga.)
- Princeton University(Princeton, N.J.)
- Yale University (New Haven, Conn.)
- Williams College (Williamstown, Mass.)
- Rice University (Houston, Texas)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology(Cambridge, Mass.)
- Amherst College (Amherst, Mass.)
- Wellesley College (Wellesley, Mass.)