The public colleges and universities are the majority of quality educators in the top ten of MONEY's Best Colleges 2019. The University of California carries four of those ten slots. Three private universities are in the top ten; Princeton, Stanford and MIT. These top ten universities graduate students that achieve greater than $60,000 per year in their early career. The University of California - Irvine's has the highest graduation rate of 85% with graduates averaging an annual salary of $57,700 in their early career with an average student investment of $14,900 per year of education.August 16, 2019
...MONEY’s 2019 Best Colleges rankings. (click here) Pursuing a college degree is one of the most expensive decisions you can make—and with ever-rising prices, families from every background worry they’ll get it wrong. That’s where MONEY’s rankings can help. For our annual analysis, we considered more than 19,000 data points including graduation rates, tuition fees, family borrowing, and alumni salaries to identify the colleges that best combine quality and affordability.
The result is a mix of 744 colleges that highlights campuses like No. 13 California State University-Long Beach, where incoming students report average SAT scores of about 1100 out of 1600, alongside more selective schools like No. 14 Harvard University, where nearly a quarter of students submitted perfect SAT scores. Recent graduates of both colleges report higher-than-expected salaries, according to MONEY’s calculations. (See a breakdown of the all data we use here.)...
