The WiseChoice Blog: Your College Planning Voice

There’s a reason people line up at the mall before dawn on the biggest sale days.  It’s because everybody loves a bargain, and at WiseChoice, we believe college tuition should be no different.  We’ve just recently released our list of top ten colleges in the U.S. offering the greatest value with some of the best financial aid you can find.

How does going to school in our nation’s capital on a scholarship sound?  Be sure to check out Catholic University of America which offers subsidized federal nursing scholarships and loans and many merit-based scholarships.  What about a state university set in the Rocky Mountains offering major scholarships to out-of-state students and freshman?  Montana State University may be the school for you.

If you’re academically gifted, consider schools that have strong honors or research programs where you could benefit from working closely with your professors.  If you fit in this category, you may want to consider the University of Texas Honor’s Program or the University of Pittsburgh which is one of the major research universities of North America.  If an international or diverse community is what you crave, there are schools out there with humanities as their focus and lots of financial aid available to draw those future leaders, including Soka University and Seattle University.

With money tight at home and many traditional scholarship dollars disappearing, now is the time to arm yourself with WiseChoice’s resources and an open mind to find the right school at the best value.

To discover these schools and more that give you the most bang for your bucks, read our Top Ten Colleges and Universities Offering the Greatest Value for Your Dollar.

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2 Responses to “Top ten colleges and universities offering the biggest bang for your buck”

1. Stewart says:

   January 11, 2010 at 9:26 pm

   Wow. The criteria for this “award” isn’t what I would consider the things that make a college a “good value.” I saw Winthrop on the list, and all I can say is… wow.
2. Rebecca says:

   January 12, 2010 at 6:14 pm

   Thanks for your comment, Stewart. Our list of Top Value Schools was never intended as an “award,” per se. More so, we hoped to point out interesting colleges or programs that students may not know about.

   Winthrop in particular caught our eye for a few reasons:
   1. It has a much smaller student population than most public schools.
   2. Its tuition is (relatively) reasonable, even for out-of-state students.
   3. It has a beautiful campus, and enjoys the best of two worlds: a quiet setting yet very close to a vibrant, urban area (Charlotte, NC).

   Hope this provides some clarity around our criteria.

   Cheers,
   Rebecca from WiseChoice