BLACKSBURG, Va., January 23, 2008 -- Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine has ranked Virginia Tech 17th among the magazine's 2008 list of the top 100 public colleges and universities that offer "academic excellence at an affordable price."
Virginia Tech is slowly but surely advancing in Kiplinger’s top 100 best values list, moving up from a ranking of 20th in 2006 and 18th in 2007.
The magazine used a number of criteria in selecting and ranking the top 100 from among the more than 500 public colleges and universities in the United States. Most of the data was supplied by Peterson’s, a Nelnet educational services company. The list was published in the February issue of Kiplinger’s, on newsstands now.
“We were looking for schools that were academically strong as well as affordable, so in our scoring, academic quality carries more weight than costs (almost two-thirds of the total),†wrote Kiplinger’s associate editor Jane Bennett Clark.  More
