Pennsylvania Academic Quality per Dollar Ranking

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.

Pennsylvania's Best Value Colleges by Academic Quality per Dollar

Average Net Price	College	Rating	$Value
$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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