Best Colleges & Universities In Connecticut: New Report

CONNECTICUT — Yale University is again enshrined at the top of a list of the top-performing colleges and universities at the lowest possible costs to undergraduates.

This time, personal finance website WalletHub named the Bulldogs first in the state and second nationwide, behind the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in it 2023 College & University Rankings.

WalletHub compared more than 900 higher-education institutions in the U.S. across 30 key categories. The data set is grouped into seven categories, such as Student Selectivity, Cost & Financing and Career Outcomes. The metrics range from student-faculty ratio to graduation rate to post-attendance median salary.

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Yale took top marks among Connecticut schools in the majority of the survey's rankings:

• 1st – Admission Rate
• 9th – Net Cost
• 1st – Student-Faculty Ratio
• 8th – On-Campus Crime
• 1st – Gender & Racial Diversity
• 1st – Graduation Rate
• 1st – Post-Attendance Median Salary

The University of Connecticut ranked No. 2 overall on the survey. The rest of its metrics broke out like this:

• 3rd – Admission Rate
• 4th – Net Cost
• 8th – Student-Faculty Ratio
• 2nd – On-Campus Crime
• 4th – Gender & Racial Diversity
• 3rd – Graduation Rate
• 3rd – Post-Attendance Median Salary

Here is WalletHub's Connecticut list of top-performing colleges and universities at the lowest prices costs to undergraduates:

1. Yale University
2. University of Connecticut
3. Connecticut College
4. Fairfield University
5. University of Hartford
6. Central Connecticut State University
7. University of Saint Joseph
8. University of New Haven
9. University of Bridgeport

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Yale is notable for being a top Ivy League school with tuition costs more down to earth than most of its peers. But is that vaunted Ivy League education worth the second mortgage?

"It depends on an individual's circumstances," said Stephen Brown, professor emeritus of Management, John F. Welch College of Business at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield. "Generally, Ivy League schools have great facilities and resources for students. After graduation, the brand of quality and exclusivity along with an accomplished alumni network serves graduates extremely well. Any admitted student to an Ivy League student who comes from a family with an annual income at or below $65,000 will receive support for the entire tuition. These factors make Ivy League universities very attractive. The result is that they receive a very high number of applications and admit a small fraction of the applications."

Joining MIT and Yale in WalletHub's Top Five colleges and universities at the lowest possible cost are California Institute of Technology, Princeton and Harvard.