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you owe.
Help your child weigh college costs against long-term value. Start with the Degreeli Value Score, compare schools together, and understand the financial commitment before your family decides.
Better School = Better Value?
Compare up to five schools by Degreeli Value Score, then explore affordability, earnings, graduation, debt, and user reviews when available. Use program outcomes to help your child find a path that fits their goals and your family’s budget.
Tools for your family’s college decision.
Top 25 by Degreeli Value Score.
Rank schools by Degreeli Value Score, affordability, earnings, graduation, debt, or user reviews. Select a school to explore its score.
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What we like
- Generous grant-based aid helps bring reported net price to $6,128. Source
- $110,066 median earnings 10 years after entry.
What we don’t
- That low average price depends on aid eligibility; your family’s offer may be higher.
What we like
- $89,718 median earnings 10 years after entry.
- 94.6% reported graduation rate.
What we don’t
- $13,370 net price is its biggest score tradeoff; affordability scores 75.2/100.
- No approved review element yet; the overall score remains provisional.
What we like
- $6,541 annual net price after aid.
- 91.1% reported graduation rate.
What we don’t
- $71,588 earnings trails the highest-earning schools in this directory.
- No approved review element yet; the overall score remains provisional.
What we like
- $124,080 median earnings 10 years after entry.
- $12,000 median federal debt among graduates.
What we don’t
- $13,807 net price is its biggest score tradeoff; affordability scores 73.5/100.
- No approved review element yet; the overall score remains provisional.
Low net prices after aid can place selective colleges and federally funded academies near the top. Your family’s actual cost may differ. The Merchant Marine Academy also has service obligations, which this score does not measure.
Scores describe schools within our directory. Provisional scores use four public-data elements; complete scores include approved user reviews. Sources & limitations
Quick takes interpret each school’s reported data, not a campus review. Earnings, net price, debt and graduation describe different historical populations; your costs and outcomes may differ.
See how the Degreeli Value Score adds up.
A 40-second narrated walkthrough using Princeton’s public-data score.
Read the calculation
Affordability and debt reward lower values; earnings rewards higher values. These three elements use percentiles within Degreeli’s directory. For ties, percentile = 100 × midpoint of zero-based sorted positions ÷ (number of reported values − 1). Affordability and debt use 100 minus that percentile. Graduation success = reported completion rate × 100.
Princeton’s unrounded elements are approximately 95.243619 (affordability), 99.142367 (earnings), 97.61 (graduation) and 95.995289 (debt). Their mean is 96.997819, rounded once to 97.0/100. Without approved reviews, that is provisional. Approved reviews add a fifth element: average overall rating × 20. The complete score averages all five elements equally. All four public-data measures are required; missing data is never zero.
Full scoring methodologyIs the degree worth your family’s investment?
Consider what your family will pay, time in college, and expected graduate earnings. Use those assumptions to estimate the financial return together.
Make the decision together.
Talk through what your family can contribute, what your child may need to borrow, and which career paths they want to pursue. Agree on a budget and a shortlist before committing to a school.