(MONEY Magazine) – The schools listed below and on the next page deliver the best education for the money. We ranked them using data from Peterson's Guides of Princeton, N.J. and other sources.

1. Rice University 2. New College of U. of S. Fla. 3. Trenton State 4. University of Virginia 5. U. of Ill.-Urbana-Champaign 6. Calif. Inst. of Technology 7. SUNY-Binghamton 8. University of Washington 9. U. of N. C.-Chapel Hill 10. University of Texas-Austin 11. SUNY-Albany 12. Auburn University 13. Hanover College 14. Texas A&M 15. New Mexico Inst. of Mining 16. Yale University 17. St. Mary's of Maryland 18. Spelman College 19. Fisk University 20. Princeton University 21. Trinity University 22. Centenary of Louisiana 23. Mary Washington College 24. Ohio University 25. Johns Hopkins University 26. SUNY-Buffalo 27. University of Florida 28. SUNY-Geneseo 29. Hendrix College 30. Georgia Inst. of Tech 31. U. of Wisconsin-Madison 32. SUNY-Stony Brook 33. Rutgers College 34. Michigan Technological 35. University of Georgia 36. Wake Forest University 37. Baylor University 38. James Madison University 39. Douglass College 40. Samford University 41. North Carolina State 42. Notre Dame of Maryland 43. U. of California-Berkeley 44. Chestnut Hill College 45. Pomona College 46. SUNY-Potsdam 47. Bellarmine College 48. Wabash College 49. Purdue University 50. Florida Southern College 51. University of Iowa 52. U. of South Carolina 53. Erskine College 54. Swarthmore College 55. Iowa St. Science and Tech 56. Washington and Lee U. 57. Emory and Henry College 58. Incarnate Word College 59. Kentucky Wesleyan C. 60. Virginia Polytechnic Inst. 61. Centre College 62. Harvey Mudd College 63. University of Tulsa 64. Case Western Reserve U. 65. Miami University (Ohio) 66. Cook College 67. UCLA 68. William and Mary 69. University of Chicago 70. Rosemont College 71. Westminster College (Mo.) 72. St. Joseph's C. (Maine) 73. Clemson University 74. Columbia University 75. Furman University 76. Michigan State University 77. Shenandoah University 78. Wesleyan College (Ga.) 79. Lenoir-Rhyne College 80. University of Pittsburgh 81. St. Bonaventure U. 82. Davidson College 83. Creighton University 84. John Carroll University 85. U. of Missouri-Rolla 86. Agnes Scott College 87. Benedictine College 88. Stanford University 89. St. John's University (N.Y.) 90. University of Dallas 91. Southwestern U. (Texas) 92. Barnard College 93. Claremont McKenna C. 94. University of Connecticut 95. MacMurray College 96. Hillsdale College 97. Le Moyne College 98. MIT 99. St. Louis University 100. U. of Md.-College Park