Earlier this month, the Princeton Review named UCSD among the nation’s top 10 ‘best value’ public colleges for 2009.
UCSD was ranked seventh, while first place went to the University of Virginia. No other UC made the list.
Selection was based on surveys of administrators and students at more than 650 colleges nationwide, and criteria for evaluation covered factors in the areas of academics, costs of attendance and financial aid.
‘Mathematics and the sciences reign supreme at the University of California, San Diego, a school whose excellent reputation, huge research budgets and idyllic climate have helped it attract eight Nobel laureates to its faculty,’ the report said. ‘While research and graduate study garner most of the attention, undergraduates still receive a solid education that results in an impressive degree.’