New College Rankings, With Emphasis on Value

What college provides the best bang for the buck? It may be a subjective question, but WalletHub crunches data on everything from tuition and student-faculty ratio to student debt and graduates' salaries at nearly 1,000 colleges and universities for its new ranking. The Ivy League is well represented in the upper ranks, but top honors go elsewhere.

Here are the overall rankings of the top 10, with the school's rating out of 100:

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 81.52
2. Princeton, 79.4
3. Harvard, 79.37
4. Stanford, 77.55
5. California Institute of Technology, 77.39
6. Yale University, 77.37
7. Duke, 76.87
8. University of Pennsylvania, 75.82
9. Columbia, 75.27
10. Rice University, 75.15

Here are the best and worst in terms of student-loan debt, starting with the best:

1. Paul Quinn College, Texas
2. Lane College, Tennessee
3. University of Tennessee-Chattanooga
4. Iowa Wesleyan University
5. University of Texas of the Permian Basin

The worst:

965. Baylor University, Texas
966. University of Dubuque, Iowa
967. Hampton University, Virginia
968. Graceland University, Iowa
969. Texas Christian University

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The best and worst in terms of post-attendance median salaries, starting with the best:

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2. Harvard
3. Georgetown
4. Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey
5. Stanford

The worst:

966. St. Augustine's University, North Carolina
967. Central State University, Ohio
968. (tie) Edward Waters College, Florida
969. (tie) Lane College, Tennessee
970. Livingstone College, North Carolina

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