WASHINGTON – A new college ranking system that measures how well non-wealthy students are assisted toward marketable degree at affordable cost puts Gustavus Adolphus at Number One in Minnesota. The ranking, by Washington Monthly magazine, evaluated eight-year graduation rates, the net price of attendance for families below $75,000 annual income and the percent of loan principal remaining after five years. Gustavus, in St. Peter, charges $49,050 tuition a year and estimates student costs typically at $61,390. but the those are gross sums. The Washington Monthly system looked deeper at net costs and calculated less obvious factors. These included federal Pell grant subsidies for students.
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Best in Midwest
1 – College of the Ozarks (Missouri)
2 — University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
3 — Mount Mercy University (Iowa)
4 — National Louis University (Illinois)
5 — University of Notre Dame (Indiana)
6 — Milwaukee School of Engineering
7 — Northwestern University (Illinois)
8 — University of Wisconsin, Madison
9 — Dordt University (Iowa)
10 — Gustavus Adolphus (Minnesota)
Minnesota ranking
10 – Gustavus Adolphus
12 — St. Olaf
17 — UM-Crookston
18 — Saint Benedict
23 — UM-Duluth
24 – Carleton
49 – Bethel
51 – Macalester
32 — UM-Twin Cuties
56 — Winona State
71 — Saint John’s
72 — UM-Mankato
73 — Saint Mary’s
76 — St. Cloud State
82 – Bethel
84 — Northwest ern of St. Paul
Nearby
15 – Wisconsin Lutheran
19 – Northern Iowa
25 – UW-Platteville
26 – UW-Stevens Point
27 – Grinell (Iowa)
31 — Iowa State
38 – UW-LaCrosse
41 – UW-Whitewater
41 – UW-Eau Claire
48 – UW-Stout
59 – UW-Riuver Falls
61 – Marquette
62 – UW-Oshkosh
87 – North Dakota State
91 – UW-Green Bay