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Furman, Wofford make Kiplinger’s list of best values CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF
clandrum@communityjournals.com Two of the country’s best values in private colleges are in the Upstate, according to Kiplinger’s Personal Finance. Furman University and Wofford College made the magazine’s annual ranking of private universities for their academics and affordability. Wofford was ranked 32nd among private liberal arts schools, while Furman ranked 74th. Kiplinger’s rankings, which will be published in the issue that hits newsstands next week, measure things such as student admission rates, test scores of incoming freshmen, student-to-faculty member ratio and graduation rates. It also measures colleges’ sticker prices, the availability of financial aid and the average student debt at graduation. “With President Obama’s recent emphasis on rating colleges and universities based on their value, our rankings serve as a valuable resource to help
TEEN ARRESTED ON MURDER CHARGES
One teen is dead and three in jail after a shooting at a Greenville students and families make more in- dential educational program, and foapartment complex last weekend. formed choices,” said Janet Bodnar, cusing on affordability for a wide range Raekwon Ny-Allah Mclean, 18, of Kiplinger’s editor. “Combining a high- of students and families.” Apt. 239, Fairway Club Apartments, Sticker prices at private schools typiquality education with an affordable 55 Villa Rd. was arrested in DeKalb price tag is a challenge, but the col- cally are higher than in-state prices at County, Georgia and booked into the leges on this year’s list offer the best of public campuses, but private schools Greenville County Detention Center often offer more financial aid. For exboth worlds.” on charges of murder, two counts of atFurman and Wofford both have 79 ample, Wofford distributed almost $45 tempted murder and one count each of percent four-year graduation rates, ac- million in aid from all sources to its armed robbery, discharging a firearm 1,600 students in 2012-13. About 90 cording to Kiplinger’s. into an occupied vehicle and possession Kiplinger’s lists Furman’s sticker percent of its students received some of a weapon during a violent crime. price as $55,208 and listed students’ type of aid. Police say Mclean shot into in a car The top 10 “Best Values” for private average debt at graduation at $26,661. parked at the apartment complex on Wofford’s sticker price was $45,795, schools were Yale, Princeton, Rice, Oct. 26 that left 18-year-old Carolina Kiplinger’s said. The average Wof- Harvard, Duke, Columbia UniverHigh senior Gregory Shaquan Sandford student graduated with a debt of sity, Stanford, Massachusetts Institute ers dead and a second person injured. $22,118. of Technology, California Institute of Two other teens also have been ar“It is gratifying to receive yet another Technology and the University of Pennrested in connection with the case. recognition as one of the nation’s high sylvania. Andre Christian Knox, 16, is The top 10 liberal arts private value liberal arts colleges,” said Wofcharged with murder, attempted ford President Nayef Samhat, who schools in Kiplinger’s rankings are murder, armed robbery and possesmentioned U.S. News & World Report’s Washington and Lee University, Posion of a weapon during a violent listing the school among its “40 Great mona College, Swarthmore College, crime. Knox, a student at J.L. Mann Schools at Great Prices” list. “Such rec- Williams College, Amherst College, High, is charged as an adult. ognitions reflect our long-term com- Bowdoin College, Middlebury College, A 15-year-old was arrested on the Davidson College, Haverford College aId.same charges. mitmentIntroduce to balancing two important your ears to the fIrst and only InvIsIble 24/7* hearIng priorities: offering an outstanding resi- and Grinnell College.
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