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Standout Best-Bang-for-the-Buck Schools

by Devin Castles, Katelyn Fossett, and Ben Florsheim

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FULLERTON (CA) Predicted grad rate: 47% Actual grad rate: 50% Net price: $3,489 Reason it made the cut: CSUF ranks eighth in the nation for bachelor’s degrees awarded to minority students, according to the magazine Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. After expanding its enrollment cap in 2003, CSUF grew rapidly and is […]

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A Note on Methodology: 4-Year Colleges and Universities

by The Editors

There are two primary goals to our methodology. First, we considered no single category to be more important than any other. Second, the final rankings needed to reflect excellence across the full breadth of our measures, rather than reward an exceptionally high focus on, say, research. Thus, all three main categories were weighted equally when […]

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