These are the Pennsylvania schools which appear on CollegeCalc's Best Value Colleges in America ranking and represent the colleges providing the finest education balanced against an affordable average net price. The best value in Pennsylvania ranking goes to University of Pennsylvania with a 99th percentile national academic rank for a comparatively affordable $22,694 average net price.
Rating is a CollegeCalc proprietary national percentile ranking of a college's overall difficulty and educational effectiveness. An average score is 50. Dollar value is a measure of a school's academic rating compared with the average net price paid. Colleges which are ranked "n/a" didn't report sufficient data to formulate a score. Learn more about our rating methodology.
All price data are reprinted from the U.S. Department of Education's 2017-2018 IPEDS Survey and reflect reported costs for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Average Net Price | College | Rating | $Value |
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$22,694
Average Net Price |
1) University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Private Not For Profit |
99 | 77 |
$22,557
Average Net Price |
2) Swarthmore College Swarthmore, Private Not For Profit |
98 | 77 |
$22,409
Average Net Price |
3) Haverford College Haverford, Private Not For Profit |
97 | 76 |
$23,489
Average Net Price |
4) University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Campus Pittsburgh, Public Not For Profit |
85 | 72 |
$27,019
Average Net Price |
5) Lafayette College Easton, Private Not For Profit |
93 | 71 |
$24,220
Average Net Price |
6) Penn State Main Campus University Park, Public Not For Profit |
83 | 71 |
$27,848
Average Net Price |
7) Lehigh University Bethlehem, Private Not For Profit |
94 | 70 |
$33,670
Average Net Price |
8) Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Private Not For Profit |
96 | 65 |
$33,127
Average Net Price |
9) Bucknell University Lewisburg, Private Not For Profit |
94 | 64 |
$32,704
Average Net Price |
10) Villanova University Villanova, Private Not For Profit |
91 | 64 |
$27,000
Average Net Price |
11) Duquesne University Pittsburgh, Private Not For Profit |
69 | 61 |
$35,610
Average Net Price |
12) Muhlenberg College Allentown, Private Not For Profit |
88 | 59 |
$37,244
Average Net Price |
13) Drexel University Philadelphia, Private Not For Profit |
68 | 45 |
$26,337
Average Net Price |
14) Arcadia University Glenside, Private Not For Profit |
70 | 62 |
$30,461
Average Net Price |
15) University of the Sciences Philadelphia, Private Not For Profit |
73 | 58 |
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