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December 8, 1994

Pitt's main campus ranks high on U.S. News and World Report list

U.S. News and World Report has ranked Pitt's main campus as one of the runners-up in its "best value" list of colleges and universities.

The newsweekly said its rankings "are an effort to provide families with a realistic measure of value by relating the cost of attending a school to the quality of the education. The best values are calculated both in relation to a school's stated or 'sticker' price (tuition plus room, board and fees) and in relation to its discounted price (tuition plus room, board, fees, books and estimated personal expenses, minus the average of its need-based grants)." In the discounted price category, Pitt's main campus was one of 25 runners-up, listed alphabetically. Among the magazine's top 25 best values in the discounted price category, Carnegie Mellon was ranked as the 12th best value. The University of Pennsylvania was 14th. The No. 1-ranked school in terms of its discounted price was the California Institute of Technology.

No Pennsylvania schools were among the top 25 best values in the "sticker price" category, but Penn State's main campus was one of the 25 runners-up.

Filed under: Feature,Volume 27 Issue 8

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