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Furman, Wofford make list of best values CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF
clandrum@communityjournals.com Two of the country’s best values in liberal arts colleges are in the Upstate, according to Kiplinger’s Personal Finance. Furman University and Wofford College made the magazine’s annual ranking of liberal arts schools for their academics and affordability. Wofford was ranked 52nd among private liberal arts schools, while Furman ranked 80th. Wofford ranked the 100th best value among all private, public and liberal arts schools in the country. Kiplinger’s rankings measure factors such as student admission rates, test scores of incoming freshmen, studentto-faculty member ratio and four-year graduation rates. It also measures colleges’ sticker prices, the availability of financial aid and the average student debt at graduation. Furman has an 80 percent four-year graduation rate, while Wofford’s is 78 percent, according to Kiplinger’s.
Kiplinger’s lists Furman’s sticker price as $57,665 and students’ average debt at graduation at $27,926. Wofford’s sticker price was $49,050, Kiplinger’s said. The average Wofford student graduated with a debt of $24,751. While sticker prices at private schools typically are higher than in-state prices at public campuses, private schools often offer more financial aid. The top 10 “Best Values” for private schools were Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Rice, Duke, Vanderbilt, California Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford and Dartmouth. The top 10 liberal arts schools in Kiplinger’s rankings are Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, Washington and Lee University in Virginia, Wellesley College in Massachusetts, Haverford College in Pennsylvania, Pomona College in California, Amherst College in Massachusetts, Vassar College in New York, Bowdoin College in Maine, Williams College in Massachusetts and the University of Richmond in Virginia.
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