These are the California 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 California ranking goes to University of California Los Angeles with a 97th percentile national academic rank for a comparatively affordable $12,510 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 |
---|---|---|---|
$12,510
Average Net Price |
1) University of California Los Angeles Los Angeles, Public Not For Profit |
97 | 87 |
$12,072
Average Net Price |
2) University of California Irvine Irvine, Public Not For Profit |
90 | 86 |
$13,693
Average Net Price |
3) University of California San Diego La Jolla, Public Not For Profit |
94 | 85 |
$13,635
Average Net Price |
4) Soka University of America Aliso Viejo, Private Not For Profit |
92 | 85 |
$14,966
Average Net Price |
5) University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, Public Not For Profit |
92 | 83 |
$16,655
Average Net Price |
6) University of California Berkeley Berkeley, Public Not For Profit |
97 | 82 |
$16,231
Average Net Price |
7) University of California Davis Davis, Public Not For Profit |
90 | 82 |
$16,783
Average Net Price |
8) California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo, Public Not For Profit |
91 | 81 |
$14,759
Average Net Price |
9) University of California Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, Public Not For Profit |
80 | 81 |
$17,952
Average Net Price |
10) Stanford University Stanford, Private Not For Profit |
99 | 81 |
$19,205
Average Net Price |
11) Pomona College Claremont, Private Not For Profit |
98 | 80 |
$23,982
Average Net Price |
12) Claremont McKenna College Claremont, Private Not For Profit |
97 | 75 |
$26,910
Average Net Price |
13) California Institute of Technology Pasadena, Private Not For Profit |
98 | 72 |
$19,770
Average Net Price |
14) Thomas Aquinas College Santa Paula, Private Not For Profit |
69 | 71 |
$27,644
Average Net Price |
15) Pepperdine University Malibu, Private Not For Profit |
91 | 69 |
$31,189
Average Net Price |
16) University of Southern California Los Angeles, Private Not For Profit |
97 | 67 |
$33,137
Average Net Price |
17) Harvey Mudd College Claremont, Private Not For Profit |
97 | 65 |
$32,746
Average Net Price |
18) Occidental College Los Angeles, Private Not For Profit |
90 | 63 |
$32,482
Average Net Price |
19) University of San Diego San Diego, Private Not For Profit |
84 | 61 |
$36,645
Average Net Price |
20) Santa Clara University Santa Clara, Private Not For Profit |
89 | 59 |
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