Sunday, January 09, 2011
AMHERST - The University of Massachusetts has been ranked one of the 100 best values in public colleges in Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine. By DIANE LEDERMAN
dlederman@repub.com
UMass was ranked 83rd in value for in-state students and 59th for out-of-state students.
Last year, the university was ranked 79th and 49th respectively.
Kiplinger looked at more than 500 public institutions to compile its ranking, according to its website.
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Kiplinger stated that they use admission rate, test scores of incoming freshmen, and four- and six-year graduation rates and then add cost data - including tuition, fees, room and board, and financial aid for in-state and out-of-state students to rank schools.
"It is this combination of academic quality and affordability - not any desire on our part to exclude a particular school - that determines which schools make our lists for best value," Kiplinger stated.
The top ranked school was the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Total in-state cost there was $17,000.
The cost for attending UMass for in-state students is $22,071, according to the report.
The least expensive college was the University of North Carolina at Asheville for an in-state cost of $12,762 and a ranking of 58th for in-state students.
The most costly was the University of California, Los Angeles, at $27,210 and a ranking of 13th.
The University of Connecticut at Storrs was ranked 32nd with a cost of $21,998 for in-state students.
To see the rankings visit http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/colleges
