University students in their caps and gowns are silhouetted as they line up for graduation ceremonies in 2016. [AP Photo]





SmartAsset has released its 2018 report of the Best Value Colleges in the U.S. Annalists looked at five factors that determine what students spend and what they get in return: tuition, student living costs, scholarship and grant offerings, retention rate from freshman to sophomore year and starting salary after graduation.

The report lists four private and six public universities as Oklahoma’s Top 10 Best Value Colleges.

The University of Tulsa came in No. 1 in the state and No. 124 nationally. Other private schools on the list are Southern Nazarene University, Bethany, No. 5; Oklahoman City University, No. 7; and Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, No. 8.

What public universities made the list of Oklahoma’s Top 10?