Rice #4 on Kiplinger's best value list

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<p>Rice University has been ranked No. 4 in the nation in Kiplinger’s Personal Finance’s 2009 study of the nation’s 100 best-value private colleges.</p>

<p>The top 100 schools were selected from a pool of 600 and were ranked based on student performance, faculty-to-student ratio, financial aid and average tuition, among other factors.</p>

<p>The average cost for a year of private school was about $35,000, up 4.3 percent from the year before, according to Kiplinger’s. However, colleges boosted financial aid by an average of 9 percent for the year.</p>

<p>Pomona College in California topped the ranking for the second year in a row. The full list will appear in the December issue of Kiplinger’s.</p>

<p>San Antonio’s Trinity University, at No. 31, was the only other Texas university to make the list.
(from Houston Business Chronicle)</p>

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<p>Correction: Houston Business Journal</p>