To get you started, we came up with a list of the 100 most affordable universities in the country. Now to clarify, we know that technically any size school can call itself a “university,” but for our purposes we chose to focus exclusively on schools of moderate to large size; in other words, colleges with 4,000 students or more (if you’re looking for an affordable small college, we have another ranking just for you!). So how did we come up with such a list? Our first step was to create a database of every single institution of higher education in the United States. From this list of nearly 2,700 colleges, we then eliminated community colleges, graduate schools, and specialty schools (for example, seminaries or pre-professional schools that would appeal only to a small subset of applicants). As our focus was on traditional four-year colleges, we also eliminated schools that don’t admit first-time undergraduates. This dropped our list of candidates to about 1,900, at which point we collected data on student enrollment. Motivated by our “small college” ranking, which used 4,000 students as a cut-off point, we sorted the remaining schools to show only those universities with enrollment north of 4,000. This left us with approximately 650 colleges to consider for our ranking.
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