I know it’s difficult to factor in financial aid, but in terms of value, it invalidates their methology.
Yep, there are some great schools that grant FULL or even half tuition to EVERY STUDENT.
New York’s Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, commonly referred to simply as Cooper Union comes to mind.
It is a great engineering and technology school built on a radical new model of American higher education based on founder Peter Cooper’s fundamental belief that an education “equal to the best technology schools [then] established”should be accessible to those who qualify, independent of their race, religion, sex, wealth or social status, and should be “open and free to all”.
The Cooper Union since its founding in 1859, granted each admitted student a full-tuition scholarship; as of April 23, 2013, due to financial concerns, that policy has been eliminated beginning with the class entering in the Fall of 2014,although every incoming student receives at the very least a fifty-percent merit scholarship.
Yet, I don’t see that school on the list.