Virginia and Maryland Colleges Best Value

Virginia has six schools in the top 100--including two in the top 10--and Maryland has five in the top 100, with one in the top 10.

The University of Maryland at College Park jumping from No. 28 in 2008 to No. 8 overall for 2010.

As has been true every year since Kiplinger’s began making these lists in 1998, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill won the top spot. It was followed by the University of Florida, the University of Virginia, the College of William and Mary (Va.), Binghamton University (part of the State University of New York system), the University of Georgia, the University of Washington, the University of Maryland-College Park, SUNY Geneseo and North Carolina State University.

The Virginia schools were: University of Virgina - #3

College of William and Mary - #4 Virginia Polytechnic Institute - #16 James Madison University - #21 University of Mary Washington - #38 George Mason University - #64

Maryland schools were: University of Maryland - #8

St. Mary’s College of Maryland - # 37 Salisbury University - # 59 University of Maryland, Baltimore County- # 93 Towson University - # 97