UF ranks No. 2 on Kiplinger Best College Values list for 2018

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http://news.ufl.edu/articles/2017/12/uf-ranks-no-2-on-kiplinger-best-college-values-list-for-2018.php

UF has been among Kiplinger’s top-10 best values in public colleges since 2005. Among both public and private institutions, UF ranked No. 32 and was the only Florida university, public or private, to make the top 50.
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The top-10 public schools are:

1. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
   2. University of Florida
2. University of Virginia
3. University of Michigan
4. University of California, Berkeley
5. University of California, Los Angeles
6. University of Washington
7. University of Texas at Austin
8. North Carolina State University
9. University of Maryland, College Park
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   The editors at Kiplinger’s Personal Finance start with data from nearly 1,200 public and private four-year schools, provided by Peterson’s. The list is then narrowed to the top schools based on measures of academic quality, including SAT or ACT scores, admission and retention rates, student-faculty ratios, and four-year graduation rates. The editors then rank the schools using cost and financial aid measures. Academic quality carries more weight than costs.