Vanderbilt Ranked One Of 'Best Colleges For Your Money'

NASHVILLE, TN — Looking for value from a college education? Look to West End.

Money magazine ranked Vanderbilt the 15th Best College For Your Money in its annual ranking of bang-for-your-buck higher ed. Though eight other Tennessee colleges and universities were among the 700 ranked by the magazine, no other schools were in the Top 200. (For more updates on this story and free news alerts for your neighborhood, sign up for your local Middle Tennessee Patch morning newsletter.)

Money said the ranking is “new, uniquely practical analysis” that draws on research and advice from some of the nation’s leading experts on education quality, financing and value.

Here’s why Vanderbilt ranked 15th in the Money 2017 Best Colleges For Your Money ranking for 2017-2018:

• Estimated net cost without financial aid: $67,100
• Estimated net cost with average grant: $24,800
• Percent receiving need-based assistance: 45
• Percent receiving merit-based assistance: 20
• Average early-career earnings for graduates: $57,900

The other eight Tennessee schools ranked were:

• 267. Rhodes College, Memphis
• 296. Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville
• 362. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• 488. Sewanee—The University of the South
• 521. Union University, Jackson
• 589. Tennessee State University, Nashville
• 684. Fisk University, Nashville
• 691. Belmont University, Nashville

The top 10 education values were:

1. Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
2. CUNY Bernard M Baruch College, New York City
3. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
4. University of California-Berkeley
5. University of California-Los Angeles
6. Stanford University, Stanford, California
7. University of California-Irvine
8. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
9. University of California-Davis
10. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Read the full list.

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