Dive Brief:
- Lists ranking colleges' value are the fastest-growing sector of the college rankings industry.
- U.S. News & World Report, Princeton Review, Forbes, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance and others all now publish some form of ranking based on a school's "value."
- What value means depends on who's making the list: Some look at the price of tuition, some look at return on investment or factor in student satisfaction or graduation rates.
Dive Insight:
A New York Times table lays out the widely varying results of value rankings, depending on who's making the list. Value rankings could grow even more important if President Barack Obama's college affordability plan comes to pass. That plan would tie college rankings to federal funding.
