Without scholarships, grants and plenty of financial aid help, America’s most prestigious universities often come with a ghastly price tag.
U.S. News & World Report released its National Universities rankings this week, highlighting 311 American schools offering a full range of undergraduate majors, master's and doctoral programs and a commitment to faculty research.
Researchers compared institutions based on 15 “widely accepted indicators of excellence,” such as first-year student retention rates, graduation rates, strength of faculty and more.
To determine the top 10 most affordable top-ranked institutions, we examined colleges in the U.S. News National Universities ranking with the lowest 2017-2018 tuition and narrowed our criteria to only include institutions in the top 100 of the 311 ranked.
Here are the 10 most affordable, top-ranked colleges in America, using U.S. News data:
Brigham Young University — Provo (Provo, Utah)
National rank: 61
Out-of-state tuition: $5,460
In-state tuition: $5,460
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (Syracuse, New York)
National rank: 97
Out-of-state tuition: $18,090
In-state tuition: $8,240
Florida State University (Tallahassee, Florida)
National rank: 81
Out-of-state tuition: $21,673
In-state tuition: $6,507
Binghamton University — SUNY (Binghamton, New York)
National rank: 87
Out-of-state tuition: $24,403
In-state tuition: $9,523
University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma)
National rank: 97
Out-of-state tuition: $24,443
In-state tuition: $9,062
University at Buffalo — SUNY (Buffalo, New York)
National rank: 97
Out-of-state tuition: $26,270
In-state tuition: $12,292
Stony Brook University SUNY (Stony Brook, New York)
National rank: 97
Out-of-state tuition: $26,297
In-state tuition: $9,257
University of Minnesota — Twin Cities (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
National rank: 69
Out-of-state tuition: $26,603
In-state tuition: $9,852
North Carolina State University — Raleigh (Raleigh, North Carolina)
National rank: 81
Out-of-state tuition: $27,406
In-state tuition: $9,058
University of Florida (Gainesville, Florida)
National rank: 42
Out-of-state tuition: $28,658
In-state tuition: $6,381
Full U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings at usnews.com.
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