Bargain ‘Hunter’s best bet
The bucks stop here.
City students seeking a good education without breaking the bank need look no further than CUNY’s Hunter College, according to the latest Princeton Review rankings of the country’s 100 Best Value Colleges.
The Upper East Side four-year public school, where annual in-state tuition runs $4,830 and where the average student grant is $4,000, ranked 10th among public colleges on the 2011 list.
The University of Virginia in Charlottesville clinched the top bargain spot, while SUNY Binghamton claimed the No. 4 slot.
But even a school with a price like Columbia University’s, where tuition, room and board costs more than $50,000 a year, was deemed a good value on the private college list because its average student grant is $35,000.
“We wanted to make sure the schools were solid academically — then we looked at their sticker price and then how aggressively the school was at making that sticker price affordable for the average family,” said Robert Franek, a vice president of publishing for the Princeton Review.
