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Washington and Lee topped Kiplinger's list of best-value private colleges.
Private college comes with a sizable price tag, but oftentimes, it's a worthy investment.
Kiplinger recently released its list of 300 best-value public and private schools, ranked based on quality - including test scores of incoming students, admission rates, academic support, and graduation rates - and cost measures, such as total cost, financial aid packages, and average debt at graduation.
Read Kiplinger's full methodology here.
Here, we rounded up the 20 best-value private colleges on the list, along with total annual cost, average need-based aid, and average student debt upon graduation for each.
We also included the median earnings of students 10 years after starting their studies, from the US Department of