Once again, UMW is listed among Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine’s “100 Best Values in Public Colleges.” The University has moved from 22nd to 20th position since the list was published last year. Kiplingers cover

The magazine ranks schools on their combined academic excellence and affordability, with more emphasis placed on academics. More than 500 schools are evaluated on such measures of academic quality as the percentage of freshmen scoring 600 or higher on the verbal and math components of the SAT (or scoring 24 or higher on the ACT), admission and retention rates, student/faculty ratios, and four- and six-year graduation rates. Each school also is ranked on cost and financial aid, including out-of-state numbers.

The University is ranked 20th “best value” when comparing in-state tuition costs and 11th when evaluating out-of-state tuition costs.

Mary Washington has seen its academic reputation gain national recognition through consistently high rankings in several selective college guidebooks, including U.S. News & World Report, The Fiske Guide to Colleges, and Barron’s Profiles of American Colleges and Universities.