<p>Among ranked universities, University of Alabama has been ranked as having the most financial resources per student.</p>
<p>The top 10 rankings went:
1st College of William and Mary $27,572
2nd University of Georgia $27,028
3rd Clemson U $26,293
4th Virginia Tech $26,261
5th Clark University (MA) $25,073
6th Texas Christian University $24,486
7th Indiana University–Bloomington $22,806
8th College of New Jersey $22,625
9th Binghamton University–SUNY (NY) $22,181
10th University of Oregon - $21,749</p>
<p>This is important for those of you caught up with Alabama’s party school/football school reputation or rankings. In wake of increasing tuition, it’s important to pay attention to how much is actually invested back into the student. It’s nice to see tuition dollars put to good use. $20,288 was spent per student in 2011 at U of Alabama.</p>
<p>Would you please clarify your post? You said UA was ranked as having the most financial resources per student, but looking at the list, UA spends less than the top ten. Not far behind but not at the top. Am I missing something. Interesting info though. Thanks.</p>
<p>Impressive, yes, but hardly surprising. Alabama has gotten national attention for a reason. Take a look at how Alabama’s [state</a> spending on higher education](<a href=“http://grapevine.illinoisstate.edu/]state”>http://grapevine.illinoisstate.edu/) compares to the rest of the country - click on “National Tables” and look at Table #5.</p>
<p>these aren’t in order…this is just how it’s listed on the webpage</p>
<p>National Universities</p>
<p>School name (state) U.S. News National Universities rank Financial resources per student (FY 2011)
Florida State University 97 $17,731
Brigham Young University–Provo (UT) 68 $20,441
Miami University–Oxford (OH) 89 $19,091
University of Alabama 77 $20,288
College of William and Mary (VA) 33 $27,572
Colorado School of Mines 77 $21,417
University of Missouri 97 $21,226
Binghamton University–SUNY (NY) 89 $22,181
Indiana University–Bloomington 83 $22,806
Ohio University 131 $18,983
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey–Newark 115 $20,801
University of Georgia 63 $27,028
Clemson University (SC) 68 $26,293
University of South Carolina 115 $21,389
Virginia Tech 72 $26,261
Clark University (MA) 83 $25,073
Duquesne University ¶ 120 $21,216
University of Oregon 115 $21,749
Texas Christian University 92 $24,486
Missouri University of Science & Technology 125 $21,044</p>
<p>It’s interesting to me because the state of Alabama is a “low cost state” so their dollars go farther.</p>
<p>Not to take anything away from UA, but what do USNWR scores and rankings have to do with financial efficiency? Seems like a badly flawed indirect measure of efficiency. I would hope every university would be fiscally prudent, but over the last 20 years the increase in college costs have been about double the underlying rate of inflation. In absolute terms there’s no efficiency at all, quite the opposite.</p>
<p>The highest ranked National University on USNews’ list is #33 College of William & Mary followed by #63 University of Georgia. The list measures efficiency, not generosity. The schools on this list spent less per student to achieve their respective USNews rank.</p>
<p>OP; Isn’t this a list of universities which spend the least, not most, per student ? And isn’t this often accomplished by low teacher salaries & large classes ? Do I misunderstand this list of efficiency rankings ?</p>
<p>To me, overall endowment & endowment per student are better indicators of quality of education.
USNews does publish a “Financial Resources Rank” which is as follows:</p>
<p>1) CalTech
2) Yale
3) Harvard, JHU & WashUStL
6) WFU
7) Chicago
8) MIT
9) Penn
10) Princeton & Columbia
12) Stanford & Duke
14) Northwestern
15) Vanderbilt
16) Dartmouth
17) Yeshiva
18) Cornell & Emory
20) Univ. of Rochester
22) Rice & UCLA</p>
<p>This is the list that students should target. The list that you cited is good for taxpayers & budgeting.</p>
<p>Admittedly, the methodology may be decent at best. These schools spend per rank. Now, for you to use this list you would have to take into account tuition, budgeting and public funding as you said. You would also have to accept the USNWR rankings.</p>
<p>"The less a school is spending relative to its ranking, the more efficient it is in producing a quality education among its peers.</p>
<p>How should these results be interpreted? Schools that are featured on this list are doing a good job in managing their financial resources relative to other schools that may have larger state funding, higher tuition, or larger endowments. Many of these schools are likely to be more affordable in terms of tuition relative to others in their ranking category, since almost all of them are public universities."</p>
<p>The financial resources rank are dominated by private schools. Private schools usually have a larger endowment. </p>
<p>Good catch axelrod. I’ll leave you with these other value and financial listings as collateral. I just wanted to get the word out there. </p>