{"id":1251,"date":"2018-02-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/2018\/02\/princeton-review-puts-transy-in-top-7-percent-of-colleges-for-bang-for-your-buck\/"},"modified":"2020-07-14T13:54:56","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T17:54:56","slug":"princeton-review-puts-transy-in-top-7-percent-of-colleges-for-bang-for-your-buck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/2018\/02\/princeton-review-puts-transy-in-top-7-percent-of-colleges-for-bang-for-your-buck\/","title":{"rendered":"Princeton Review puts Transy in top 7 percent of colleges for Bang for Your Buck"},"content":{"rendered":"

Transylvania University has been named in\u00a0The Princeton Review’s<\/a> 2018 edition of “Colleges That Pay You Back: The 200 Schools That Give You the Best Bang for Your Tuition Buck.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Transylvania has long aimed to keep its tuition and fees competitive with the top colleges in the nation\u2014currently it costs almost $10,000 less than the average top-100 private liberal arts college. Students graduate with 15 percent less debt than the average private school borrower.<\/p>\n

This annual guidebook, now in its fourth year, is the education services company\u2019s resource for college-bound students and their parents shopping for affordable, academically outstanding colleges that graduate their students to successful, rewarding careers.<\/p>\n

The full lists, profiles and information on the project methodology are accessible at\u00a0www.princetonreview.com\/colleges-pay-you-back<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Princeton Review chose the 200 schools for this edition based on a comprehensive analysis of data from its surveys of administrators at more than 650 colleges in 2016-17. Survey topics broadly covered academics, cost, financial aid, career services, graduation rates, student debt and alumni support.<\/p>\n

The company also factored in data from PayScale.com surveys of alumni of the schools about their starting and mid-career salaries and job satisfaction. In all, more than 40+ data points were crunched to select the 200 schools for the book and tally its seven ranking lists.<\/p>\n

Only 7 percent of the nation\u2019s four-year colleges made it into this book,<\/q>\u00a0noted Robert Franek, its lead author and The Princeton Review\u2019s editor-in-chief.\u00a0These schools were bona fide standouts for the return they deliver on one\u2019s college investment. They offer stellar academics, generous aid awards to students with need and\/or merit and provide all of their undergrads with career services from day one plus a lifetime of alumni connections.<\/q><\/p>\n

Extraordinary Facts About the Colleges That Pay You Back 2018 Edition<\/strong><\/p>\n

Among the 200 colleges (135 private and 65 public) in the book:<\/p>\n