14 Maryland Colleges Make Money's Best Colleges List For 2019

MARYLAND — Money magazine has ranked the best colleges for 2019, and 14 in Maryland made it onto the list. To be included in Money’s rankings, colleges had to meet certain criteria like having a graduation rate at or above the median and having at least 500 students.

Annually the magazine evaluates colleges based on quality, affordability and outcomes. Each category was weighted equally.

Overall, it included 744 colleges in its rankings.

Here's how Maryland colleges stacked up on Money's 2019-20 best colleges list:

• No. 43 — University of Maryland, College Park
• No. 107 — Towson University, Towson
• No. 125 — Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
• No. 169 — St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's City
• No. 173 — McDaniel College, Westminster
• No. 190 — Salisbury University, Salisbury
• No. 303 — Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore
• No. 366 — University of Maryland, Baltimore County
• No. 414 — Washington College, Chestertown
• No. 531 — Hood College, Frederick
• No. 567 — Bowie State University, Bowie
• No. 583 — Goucher College, Towson
• No. 655 — Mount St. Mary's University Emmitsburg
• No. 699 —Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore

To identify colleges that best combine quality and affordability, Money looked at data such as six-year graduation rates, amount of student debt and alumni salaries 10 years after graduation.

Read the full methodology behind the rankings from Money.

According to Money, these are the top 10 colleges that are the best for your money in America:

1. University of California, Irvine
2. CUNY Bernard M. Baruch College, New York
3. Princeton University, New Jersey
4. University of California-Los Angeles
5. University of California-Davis
6. Stanford University
7. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
8. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
9. University of California-San Diego
10. University of Virginia, Charlottesville

See the full rankings and read more about Money’s best colleges list.

Editor's note: This article has been corrected to reflect that 14 colleges from Maryland were ranked by Money.

— By Patch editors Elizabeth Janney and Feroze Dhanoa