{"id":32374,"date":"2011-04-05T10:13:06","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T14:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=32374"},"modified":"2011-08-16T16:04:23","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T20:04:23","slug":"princeton-review-names-uconn-one-of-the-%e2%80%9cbest-value%e2%80%9d-public-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2011\/04\/princeton-review-names-uconn-one-of-the-%e2%80%9cbest-value%e2%80%9d-public-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"Princeton Review Names UConn One of the \u201cBest Value\u201d Public Universities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[yframe url=&#8217;http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=haIycdpuzPc&#8217;]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The University of Connecticut was recently named one of the 50 best values in public higher education by the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.princetonreview.com\/best-value-press-release.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Princeton Review<\/a><\/em> \u2013 echoing <em>Kiplinger\u2019s Magazine, <\/em>which produced a similar list in January.<\/p>\n<p>The Review chose the schools as its &#8220;Best Value Colleges&#8221; for 2011 based on criteria covering academics, cost of attendance, and financial aid. The methodology examined more than 30 factors, using data from the company&#8217;s surveys of administrators and students at 650 colleges with strong academic programs. Most of the data analyzed came from surveys conducted from fall 2009 through fall 2010: all cost and financial aid data came from fall 2010 surveys.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While a college education is undeniably a valuable investment, paying for college is challenging for most parents,\u201d said Robert Franek, Princeton Review Senior VP\/Publishing \u201cAmong the 12,000 respondents to our 2010 &#8216;College Hopes &amp; Worries Survey&#8217; of college applicants and their parents, 86 percent told us financial aid would be &#8216;very necessary&#8217; to foot the bill. For them and for all families seeking academically outstanding colleges that have been exceptional at meeting their students&#8217; needs for financial aid, we\u2019re pleased to have teamed up with <em>USA TODAY<\/em> to identify and recommend these 100 institutions as &#8216;Best Value&#8217; colleges.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A new UConn <a href=\"http:\/\/discover.uconn.edu\/value\/\" target=\"_blank\">webpage<\/a> details some of the reasons why the University is a great value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The value of a UConn education was also previously cited by Kiplinger&#8217;s Magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,70],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[39],"class_list":["post-32374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-video"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 03:11:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32374"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39317,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32374\/revisions\/39317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32374"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=32374"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=32374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}