13 Georgia Colleges Offer Best Value For Money

Atlanta GA

20 May, 2022

2:27 PM

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GEORGIA — Prospective Georgia college students and their parents looking for affordability and high quality have a new tool and resource to help narrow down their choices: Money's new "Best Colleges in America, Ranked By Value" report. The list includes 671 schools that met Money's criteria. The full methodology is found on Money's website, but in short it includes financially sound schools with enrollments of 500 or more students and graduation rates at or above the mean for the category of institution. The data was sorted in three categories: quality of education; affordability, including the availability of grants and other financial aid; and outcomes, a category that takes a comprehensive look at earnings after graduation, graduates' economic mobility and a new measure on return on investment using data from the Bipartisan Policy Center. For students who want to stay in Georgia to go to college, the following colleges offer the most value, according to the ranking: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta (No. 6) Overall score: 84.87 Acceptance rate: 21 percent Estimated full price, 2022-23: $30,600 Estimated price with average grant: $18,400 Percent of students who get grants: 71 percent Emory University, Atlanta (No. 39) Overall score: 71.61Acceptance rate: 19 percentEstimated full price, 2022-23: $74,900Estimated price with average grant: $27,100Percent of students who get grants: 60 percent University of Georgia, Athens (No. 95) Overall score: 72.87Acceptance rate: 48 percentEstimated full price, 2022-23: $28,400Estimated price with average grant: $17,500Percent of students who get grants: 88 percent Agnes Scott College, Decatur (No. 439) Overall score: 59.44Acceptance rate: 68 percentEstimated full price, 2022-23: $61,100Estimated price with average grant: $23,000Percent of students who get grants: 97 percent Covenant College, Lookout Mountain (No. 447) Overall score: 59.06Acceptance rate: 98 percentEstimated full price, 2022-23: $52,200Estimated price with average grant: $27,600Percent of students who get grants: 95 percent Mercer University, Macon (No. 467) Overall score: 58.12Acceptance rate: 78 percentEstimated full price, 2022-23: $56,400Estimated price with average grant: $22,900Percent of students who get grants: 93 percent Berry College, Mount Berry (No. 496) Overall score: 56.93Acceptance rate: 77 percentEstimated full price, 2022-23: $56,100Estimated price with average grant: $26,000Percent of students who get grants: 99 percent Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville (No. 505) Overall score: 56.45Acceptance rate: 86 percentEstimated full price, 2022-23: $29,000Estimated price with average grant: $22,100Percent of students who get grants: 86 percent Georgia State University, Atlanta (No. 539) Overall score: 54.33Acceptance rate: 82 percentEstimated full price, 2022-23: $31,200Estimated price with average grant: $18,700Percent of students who get grants: 79 percent Spelman College, Atlanta (No. 599) Overall score: 42.42Acceptance rate: 53 percentEstimated full price, 2022-23: $56,300Estimated price with average grant: $46,400Percent of students who get grants: 78 percent Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah (No. 615) Overall score: 36.68Acceptance rate: 78 percentEstimated full price, 2022-23: $60,200Estimated price with average grant: $48,400Percent of students who get grants: 92 percent Morehouse College, Atlanta (No. 619) Overall score: 33.31Acceptance rate: 77 percentEstimated full price, 2022-23: $51,100Estimated price with average grant: $32,600Percent of students who get grants: 76 percent Clark Atlantic University, Atlanta (No. 623) Overall score: 20.00Acceptance rate: 59 percentEstimated full price, 2022-23: $39,500Estimated price with average grant: $30,700Percent of students who get grants: 86 percent Money also has a tool that students and parents can use to further narrow down their search and build a customized list that uses its high-value college rankings to create a grouping that best matches a student's interests. The list can be re-ranked, based on the importance of financial aid and post-graduate earnings, Money said. Nationally, the Top 10 schools based on value are: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of Virginia, Charlottesville Massachusetts Maritime Academy, Buzzards Bay Virginia Military Institute, Lexington Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University of Florida, Gainesville University of California, Irvine University of California, Davis