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Over 50 institutions on this year's ranking of America's Best Value Colleges are public schools. Seven public colleges dominate the top 10, including University of California, Berkeley, University of Florida, and UCLA and U.C. San Diego, all which crack the top five. Many public California schools score high on our Best Value ranking and our list of best public schools for your money. Not only do these colleges have a good reputation, they're also a great deal. You'll walk away with both a degree and some extra money in your pocket.
Full list of Best Value public colleges and their overall ranking:
| University of California, Berkeley | 1 |
| University of Florida | 3 |
| University of California, Los Angeles | 4 |
| University of California, San Diego | 5 |
| University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | 7 |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | 8 |
| University of California, Irvine | 10 |
| SUNY, Binghamton (Binghamton University) | 15 |
| University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | 16 |
| University of Texas, Austin | 17 |
| Texas A&M University, College Station | 18 |
| University of Virginia | 19 |
| College of William and Mary | 22 |
| University of Washington | 23 |
| University of Maryland, College Park | 24 |
| University of California, Santa Barbara | 25 |
| University of California, Davis | 26 |
| Virginia Tech | 29 |
| Virginia Military Institute | 44 |
| Colorado School of Mines | 45 |
| Rutgers University, New Brunswick | 49 |
| The Citadel | 50 |
| University of Wisconsin, Madison | 52 |
| California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo | 54 |
| University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | 57 |
| Purdue University, West Lafayette | 66 |
| California Maritime Academy | 67 |
| University of Georgia | 72 |
| University of Minnesota, Twin Cities | 76 |
| SUNY, Stony Brook (Stony Brook University) | 82 |
| Pennsylvania State University, University Park | 95 |
| College of New Jersey | 96 |
| James Madison University | 99 |
| University of Connecticut | 112 |
| University of Massachusetts, Amherst | 114 |
| Ohio State University, Columbus | 115 |
| Michigan State University | 118 |
| University of Delaware | 119 |
| New Jersey Institute of Technology | 120 |
| Miami University, Oxford | 122 |
| Missouri University of Science and Technology | 123 |
| Clemson University | 124 |
| St. Mary's College of Maryland | 125 |
| Indiana University, Bloomington | 126 |
| North Carolina State University, Raleigh | 144 |
| University of Colorado, Boulder | 146 |
| SUNY, Buffalo (University at Buffalo) | 159 |
| University of Pittsburgh | 160 |
| SUNY, Geneseo | 175 |
| George Mason University | 180 |
| University of Mary Washington | 185 |
| University of California, Santa Cruz | 191 |
| University of New Hampshire | 195 |
| Auburn University | 196 |
| Florida State University | 202 |
| University of Iowa | 206 |
| University of Vermont | 210 |
| Michigan Technological University | 215 |
| CUNY, Baruch College | 224 |
| Louisiana State University | 249 |
| University of Missouri, Columbia | 269 |
| University of Texas, Dallas | 275 |
| University of South Carolina, Columbia | 287 |
| University of California, Riverside | 290 |
| Iowa State University | 297 |
