Best value colleges

Graduates' earnings 10 years after enrolling divided by the yearly net price, among four-year colleges with a 60%+ graduation rate. Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard.

#	College	State	Net price / yr	Acceptance	Grad rate	Earnings after 10 yrs	Undergrads
1	CUNY Bernard M Baruch College	NY	$657	48%	70%	$83,742	16,154
2	United States Merchant Marine Academy	NY	$1,516	34%	78%	$103,283	962
3	California Institute of Technology	CA	$8,509	2.6%	90%	$166,642	987
4	University of Florida-Online	FL	$4,336	61%	83%	$78,456	4,627
5	Princeton University	NJ	$7,815	4.6%	97%	$133,523	5,709
6	California State University-Fullerton	CA	$5,115	91%	68%	$69,015	38,546
7	University of Florida	FL	$5,969	24%	92%	$78,456	35,629
8	Yale University	CT	$11,340	3.9%	96%	$118,356	6,758
9	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	MA	$14,815	4.5%	96%	$152,553	4,535
10	Stanford University	CA	$12,307	3.6%	92%	$125,340	7,554
11	Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus	GA	$12,028	14%	94%	$114,210	18,785
12	Bet Medrash Gadol Ateret Torah	NY	$3,033	89%	83%	$28,059	112
13	University of Michigan-Dearborn	MI	$7,863	56%	61%	$66,897	5,952
14	California State Polytechnic University-Pomona	CA	$9,404	75%	68%	$77,464	25,042
15	Berea College	KY	$5,836	19%	66%	$48,071	1,513
16	Franklin W Olin College of Engineering	MA	$17,057	25%	96%	$138,832	377
17	Rice University	TX	$11,164	8.0%	95%	$90,773	4,776
18	Florida State University	FL	$8,605	24%	86%	$68,225	32,212
19	University of Illinois Chicago	IL	$9,540	77%	61%	$73,666	22,170
20	California State University-Long Beach	CA	$9,426	46%	70%	$69,554	35,924
21	University of South Florida	FL	$8,648	43%	78%	$63,660	37,207
22	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	NC	$11,305	15%	91%	$81,094	20,752
23	Columbia University in the City of New York	NY	$15,370	4.0%	95%	$109,430	8,973
24	University of Washington-Tacoma Campus	WA	$11,900	83%	60%	$83,105	4,185
25	University of California-Berkeley	CA	$14,538	11%	94%	$100,212	33,068
26	Washington University in St Louis	MO	$13,360	12%	93%	$91,497	7,857
27	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	IL	$13,042	42%	86%	$87,599	36,258
28	University of California-San Diego	CA	$14,794	27%	86%	$96,197	34,948
29	New College of Florida	FL	$8,222	73%	62%	$53,164	843
30	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	MI	$14,362	16%	93%	$92,832	34,177
31	Vanderbilt University	TN	$15,497	5.9%	93%	$99,080	7,208
32	Harvard University	MA	$19,148	3.6%	97%	$121,957	7,601
33	Williams College	MA	$15,157	8.3%	95%	$95,954	2,076
34	Michigan Technological University	MI	$13,446	92%	70%	$84,681	5,955
35	University of Maryland-College Park	MD	$14,296	45%	88%	$89,228	30,760
36	University of Chicago	IL	$16,776	4.5%	95%	$103,872	7,569
37	Kentucky Mountain Bible College	KY	$6,392	100%	62%	$39,068	69
38	University of Washington-Seattle Campus	WA	$13,663	39%	85%	$83,105	31,942
39	University of California-Davis	CA	$14,318	42%	86%	$86,999	32,253
40	University of California-Los Angeles	CA	$14,659	9.0%	93%	$88,581	33,475
41	University of Washington-Bothell Campus	WA	$13,802	91%	68%	$83,105	5,457
42	University of California-Irvine	CA	$13,866	29%	87%	$83,432	30,197
43	Brigham Young University	UT	$13,397	68%	81%	$80,228	32,952
44	University of California-Merced	CA	$11,583	91%	68%	$69,352	8,372
45	University of Houston	TX	$11,439	74%	66%	$68,423	38,380
46	Davidson College	NC	$15,060	13%	90%	$89,297	1,867
47	The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art	NY	$12,999	21%	82%	$76,895	842
48	University of Connecticut-Hartford Campus	CT	$13,961	88%	66%	$82,098	1,525
49	Florida Atlantic University	FL	$10,394	66%	64%	$61,062	23,757
50	San Jose State University	CA	$14,241	85%	68%	$83,493	27,601
51	Dewey University-Hato Rey	PR	$3,836	—	62%	$22,263	244
52	Bowdoin College	ME	$15,595	7.1%	93%	$90,153	1,873
53	University of California-Riverside	CA	$12,672	76%	75%	$72,974	22,593
54	Florida International University	FL	$11,462	55%	78%	$65,722	39,508
55	Johns Hopkins University	MD	$18,431	6.4%	93%	$104,590	5,693
56	University of Georgia	GA	$13,636	38%	89%	$77,246	32,137
57	University of Hawaii at Manoa	HI	$11,122	87%	62%	$62,422	15,029
58	Emory University	GA	$16,754	11%	91%	$93,897	7,298
59	Uta Mesivta of Kiryas Joel	NY	$5,694	—	71%	$31,810	2,957
60	University of Minnesota-Rochester	MN	$13,319	71%	61%	$74,314	568
61	Northeastern University	MA	$17,850	5.2%	91%	$99,371	17,326
62	San Diego State University	CA	$13,243	36%	78%	$73,494	35,377
63	University of Central Florida	FL	$11,516	40%	78%	$63,483	59,146
64	Holy Family University	PA	$12,882	71%	67%	$70,924	2,464
65	University of Detroit Mercy	MI	$13,469	75%	74%	$74,106	2,438
66	Virginia Military Institute	VA	$15,585	71%	72%	$85,178	1,527
67	Missouri University of Science and Technology	MO	$15,772	73%	67%	$85,917	5,521
68	George Mason University	VA	$14,697	87%	66%	$79,923	27,752
69	University of New Hampshire at Manchester	NH	$13,247	81%	63%	$71,477	443
70	Purdue University-Main Campus	IN	$14,851	50%	84%	$80,082	44,503
71	Washington State University	WA	$13,462	87%	63%	$72,280	21,099
72	University of Virginia-Main Campus	VA	$18,056	17%	94%	$96,468	17,597
73	University of Delaware	DE	$16,337	71%	78%	$83,800	19,071
74	Rutgers University-Camden	NJ	$15,732	66%	61%	$80,490	3,753
75	California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo	CA	$18,832	31%	87%	$96,304	21,996
76	University of North Florida	FL	$11,689	53%	69%	$59,626	13,359
77	Capitol Technology University	MD	$19,881	74%	64%	$100,085	315
78	Rutgers University-Newark	NJ	$16,013	71%	65%	$80,490	7,709
79	Swarthmore College	PA	$17,392	7.5%	92%	$86,311	1,613
80	Southern Utah University	UT	$10,887	82%	62%	$53,925	9,289
81	California State University-Chico	CA	$14,157	93%	60%	$70,012	13,631
82	University of California-Santa Barbara	CA	$16,807	33%	84%	$82,568	23,113
83	Claremont McKenna College	CA	$26,039	9.6%	90%	$127,532	1,388
84	The University of Texas at Dallas	TX	$15,271	65%	79%	$74,762	21,751
85	University of Nevada-Reno	NV	$13,797	74%	60%	$67,303	15,599
86	Amherst College	MA	$19,536	9.0%	93%	$95,161	1,911
87	Louisiana Tech University	LA	$11,959	86%	61%	$58,121	8,312
88	University of Tulsa	OK	$13,511	62%	69%	$65,590	2,813
89	University of Wisconsin-Madison	WI	$16,600	45%	90%	$80,330	36,902
90	New Jersey Institute of Technology	NJ	$18,783	65%	72%	$90,769	9,019
91	Duke University	NC	$23,706	5.7%	96%	$113,937	6,442
92	Dominican University	IL	$14,013	90%	61%	$66,693	2,561
93	Grinnell College	IA	$15,203	15%	86%	$72,106	1,729
94	North Carolina State University at Raleigh	NC	$16,486	42%	85%	$77,810	27,371
95	Arizona State University Campus Immersion	AZ	$14,694	90%	67%	$69,111	64,674
96	Truman State University	MO	$12,317	84%	74%	$57,751	2,513
97	Utah State University	UT	$12,644	92%	60%	$59,177	20,272
98	California State University-Monterey Bay	CA	$13,861	97%	63%	$63,891	6,819
99	Lehigh University	PA	$25,272	26%	85%	$116,342	5,898
100	University of Wyoming	WY	$13,647	97%	61%	$62,764	7,944