MoJo Mini College Guide
Ten cool schools that will blow your mind, not your budget.
[For the rest of MoJo's Mini College Guide, read 6 Cutting Edge Jobs, 8 Unusual Scholarships, and Give 'Em Hellraisers.]
$39,000 a year. That's the going rate for tuition at hot liberal arts colleges like Williams and Amherst, which came in first and second respectively in U.S. News & World Report's best liberal arts colleges rankings. The 10 schools on our list may not bother to juke their stats to make U.S. News' short lists, but they still have plenty to offer—and for a lot less dough. Know of a college that¹s both cool and cost-efficient? Nominate it here for the 2010 MoJo Mini College Guide.
Berea College (Kentucky)
Best value for: Low-impact men (and women) on campus
Tuition: $0
All 1,549 students get free tuition for four years. Some live in the Ecovillage, environmentally friendly housing that features a "permaculture food forest" and a contraption that makes sewage so clean you can swim in it.
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Study Long and Prosper
Eight unusual college scholarships.
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A Matter of Degree
Six cutting-edge jobs you can get without a piece of sheepskin.
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Give 'Em Hellraisers!
We teamed up with Campus Progress and WireTap magazine to find some of the year's most inspiring feats of youth activism.
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Green College Guide
New College of Florida (Sarasota)
Best value for: Brainy beach bums
Tuition: $26,300/$4,700 in state
The Sarah Lawrence of the South favors tutorials and evaluations over giant lectures and letter grades. In the past 14 years, it's cranked out more Fulbright Scholars per student than Harvard, Stanford, or Yale.
PELL FREEZES OVER
Maximum Pell Grant as a percentage of average college tuition and costs
Sources: The College Board; Department of Education
Hope College (Holland, Michigan)
Best value for: Artists with a spiritual side
Tuition: $25,500
This creative Christian college is known for its dance, theater, art, music, and visiting writers programs. Indie rocker Sufjan Stevens is an alum.
Fisk University (Nashville, Tennessee)
Best value for: Band-camp alums
Tuition: $15,900
Harmony is big at this historically black college, which gives class credit to singers and musicians. It also offers financial and academic support to 200 first-generation college students.
The University of Minnesota-Morris
Best value for: Alt-energy enthusiasts
Tuition: $8,830
This public liberal arts college has academic chops and green-energy cred: By 2010, it expects to go carbon neutral with help from an on-site wind turbine, which already produces 60 percent of the power on campus.
Kettering University (Flint, Michigan)
Best value for: Post-GM auto geeks
Tuition: $27,584 (first year)
This top engineering school offers a four-year professional co-op where students alternate semesters in class and on the job—earning as much as $26 an hour. Plus, you can minor in Fuel Cells and Hybrid Technology.
The College of New Jersey (Ewing)
Best value for: Community-service junkies
Tuition: $16,825/$8,718 in state
Students at this small public college can make a four-year commitment to participate in service projects in return for a scholarship that covers up to full tuition. And they swear that the annual LollaNoBooza bash isn't totally lame.
California State University-Monterey Bay (Seaside)
Best value for: Surf addicts
Tuition: $3,845 + $339 per unit
The nearby Monterey Bay serves as the classroom for the school's popular Environmental Science, Technology & Policy major.
Warren Wilson College (Asheville, North Carolina)
Best value for: Mountain mamas and nature boys
Tuition: $22,666
Environmental Studies is a popular major, and the Blue Ridge Mountain campus allows easy access to outdoor adventures. All students work on campus, keeping room and board bills low.
University of Kansas (Lawrence)
Best value for: Heartland hellraisers
Tuition: $19,328/$7,359 in state
A small but mighty activist community called Delta Force fights tuition hikes and sponsors student government candidates. Plus, KU hands out more than $25 million in student aid every year.
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Surprised by one of the choices here.
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http://www.drmigueldelatorre.com/About__Biography_.html
Academic freedom is always under threat.
KU?? Way to go Hawks! Have
KU?? Way to go Hawks! Have no idea who delta force is, but KU has always offered great value and, for the engaged student, an excellent education. New Chancellor this year should shake up some of the dominance of athletics over academics!
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Luther Butler
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TCNJ
As a TCNJ (The College of New Jersey) alum, I can say with some confidence that LollaNoBooza is very, very lame. TCNJ is great academically, but don't expect much of a nightlife or "college town" experience.
brilliant
Right. "I mean, the college is good academically, but the party scene is lame." Priorities??
If you prefer a list of party schools perhaps you could consult Hustler.
As a current student I can
As a current student I can say that lollaNObooza has gotten ridiculously better over the years and is pretty awesome now. And yeah, we don't have a party scene like Rutgers, but we make other schools in our bracket look childish. Our campus is the best in the state and if it weren't for Princeton, we'd own the market for top 5% high school graduates.
Hope Rocks
Hope isn't just a great school because it's a "value." Hope and the community of Holland have so many awesome things to offer. Beautiful beaches in the summer, awesome campus life, good food and the chance to live in one of the many on-campus "cottages" It's only about 2.5 hours from Chicago and a 3 minute walk to the Amtrak station. None of the "Christian" aspects of Hope are forced upon anyone. Hope also has an extensive Greek Life community. Oh, Yeah, and Hope has great professors too.
TCNJ
TCNJ is a bargain, but try getting your child into it. It is easier to get accepted in some Ivy League schools.
reality check
Uhhm, have y'all lost your minds!? $20k a year *is* blowing the budget in a big way when freshmen can only get about $5500 in Stafford loans and their parents' income is included in generating some ass-backwards estimate of how much money they should have on hand in cash. Please get in touch with reality and write me a list of schools that provide a good education under $10k. if you can't find ten schools that provide a good education under $10k, write about that.
Why didn't they just add the
Why didn't they just add the entire CSU (California State University) system? Affordable (?) college with practical and often "green" degrees. As of last year, my brother's tuition in the engineering program at Chico State was less than $2000 a semester. (When I graduated in 2002, it was $1035 a semester).
We both have awesome educations and had small classes that were taught by PhDs. Boooyeah!
Good luck getting in to any
Good luck getting in to any CSU college now that CA is broke they have cut funding by millions and are determined to ruin the best college system in the country.
I also agree that any school over $10k a year for most people is undoable.
college
want a really cheap education? sneak across the u.s./mexico border, pay a few electric bills and pick up a drivers license in a sanctuary city then apply at a college that gives in=state tuition to illegal immigrants. you will probably also get mucho financial aid from one source or another.
Community Colleges Rock
Community colleges as a whole is actually a great way to get a good education at a great price. After getting an associates degree, you can transfer to a 4 year university.
College ranking does matter
College ranking does matter especially if you children are enrolled in a exclusive school. You always want that the tuition fees being paid are worthy of the quality education that your children are getting.All kinds of people, especially parents, look out for the U.S. News and World Report college rankings, as a favorable number in U.S. News and World Report rankings means more prestige for colleges, and therefore, more students and more money. (That's the bottom line – and many claim it's a padded list.) Critics claim that the rankings are bogus and that Harvard, Yale, and Princeton get the top spots just on the virtue of reputation, rather than actual merits. Regardless, parents still want their kids in a high ranked U.S. News and World Report school – in the hopes that a degree from those schools will mean their child could potentially never need a payday loan – or maybe even auto financing.
Mini College Guide
Geek IS chic! Kettering University is a great place for those who want to APPLY their education/knowledge. Where else can you: find students with motor-driven sofas, get to work with the State Police Bomb Squad on a class project or turn your blog into a business and make money doing it? I love it here!
Kettering rocks! I'm so glad
Kettering rocks! I'm so glad to see my awesome little school getting some recognition!!! I've been graduated & working full time for 1 yr and everyone thinks I've been there longer . . . why? Because I spent 2 years as engineer before I even got a degree! All Kettering grads come out way ahead of other engineering grads. There's nothing better than a school that lets you learn by doing rather than sitting in a classroom for four straight years. . .
TCNJ? Are You Sure of your Facts
You state two things about TCNJ:
--community service scholarship; yeah, but these are for a fairly limited number of students. Most of the other students aren't that CS oriented.
-- NoBoozaPaLooza is totally Lame. People are wasted at lots of other events, and most of the off-campus apartments are Party Central.
Who cares about LollaNoBooza...
Academically, TCNJ far surpasses any school in NJ except for Princeton. I had a better experience there as an undergraduate than most people do in graduate school... and when I went to grad school at Ohio's finest university, I was better prepared than everyone in my program. Kudos to the administration at TCNJ for allocating funds properly. New facilities and great professors make a man healthy, wealthy, and wise (unlike football).
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Hope College a "Cool School"? Um...
Hope used to be a safe place for eccentrics- which in Holland, Michigan includes anyone with an interest in the arts, really, as it's a VERY conservative town.
Recently, however, Hope refused to allow Dustin Black, the screenwriter of Milk, to participate in a campus roundtable on sexuality issues, because he might be "too controversial", or to screen Milk on campus. They limited his campus visit to English classes, period, for the purpose of talking about screenwriting, period.
It's a pity that he wasn't allowed to instead talk about censorship or homophobia.
By "too controversial", Hope's administrators mean "gay and not dying of shame".
Think twice before you spend the kind of money Hope costs so that you can log four years in a bubble of conservatism and hatefulness.
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