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Five of top 10 %27Best Value%27 public colleges are in the South

Top 10 %27Best Value%27 private colleges are concentrated in the Northeast

Princeton Review annually lists top colleges for value

PUBLIC TOP 10

1. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

2. New College of Florida-Sarasota

3. University of Virginia-Charlottesville

4. North Carolina State University-Raleigh

5. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

6. University of California-Los Angeles

7. University of Florida-Gainesville

8. College of William & Mary-Williamsburg, Va.

9. Truman State University-Kirksville, Mo.

10. State University of New York-Binghamton

PRIVATE TOP 10

1. Williams College-Williamstown, Mass.

2. Harvard College-Cambridge, Mass.

3. Swarthmore College-Swarthmore, Pa.

4. Yale University-New Haven, Conn.

5. Princeton University-Princeton, N.J.

6. The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art-New York.

7. Vassar College-Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

8. Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Cambridge, Mass.

9. Amherst College-Amherst, Mass.

10. Pomona College-Claremont. Calif.

SOURCE: The Princeton Review Best Value Colleges, 2014 edition