88 New York Colleges Make Money’s 2020-21 ‘Best’ List

NEW YORK — More than six months into the new coronavirus pandemic, colleges are struggling to resume in-person classes and, in some cases, reverting back to online courses only days into the new semester. Such challenges raise a question: Is a college degree today worth the actual cost?

Enter Money magazine. The publication this week released its annual ranking of the best colleges for the money. The list, which includes 88 schools in New York, is meant to assuage the financial anxiety associated with the high price of college in the United States.

The 2020 list includes more than 700 colleges and universities. Colleges included in Money’s rankings had to meet certain criteria, such as having a graduation rate at or above the median and having at least 500 students. Colleges were then ranked based on 26 factors in three categories: quality of education, affordability and outcomes.

Each category is weighted equally in calculating the rankings.

See the full methodology used by Money.

The following colleges in New York were included on this year’s list, with their ranking and location:

• 33 CUNY Bernard M. Baruch College, New York
• 39 Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York
• 44 Columbia University in the City of New York, New York
• 49 Cornell University, Ithaca
• 54 Hamilton College, Clinton
• 69 Stony Brook University, Stony Brook
• 73 Binghamton University, Vestal
• 84 Colgate University, Hamilton
• 94 University at Buffalo, Buffalo
• 99 SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse
• 107 SUNY Cortland, Cortland
• 113 CUNY City College, New York
• 115 CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York
• 119 SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta
• 128 Union College, Schenectady
• 133 CUNY Hunter College, New York
• 136 SUNY at Albany, Albany
• 138 St Lawrence University, Canton
• 145 Vassar College, Poughkeepsie
• 147 Barnard College, New York
• 157 State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz
• 162 CUNY Queens College, Queens
• 163 SUNY Maritime College, Throggs Neck
• 164 CUNY Brooklyn College, Brooklyn
• 167 CUNY Lehman College, Bronx
• 172 Farmingdale State College, Farmingdale
• 187 SUNY College at Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh
• 195 Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs
• 197 University of Rochester, Rochester
• 206 Molloy College, Rockville Centre
• 211 St. Joseph's College-New York, Brooklyn
• 216 Siena College, Loudonville
• 218 Clarkson University, Potsdam
• 224 SUNY College at Geneseo, Geneseo
• 226 Manhattan College, Riverdale
• 227 Le Moyne College, Syracuse
• 232 SUNY College at Brockport, Brockport
• 239 Syracuse University, Syracuse
• 254 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
• 267 Iona College, New Rochelle
• 271 Niagara University, Niagara
• 281 New York University, New York
• 286 Canisius College, Buffalo
• 287 Yeshiva University, New York
• 303 SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Utica
• 323 The Sage Colleges, Troy
• 329 Marist College, Poughkeepsie
• 336 St. Thomas Aquinas College, Sparkill
• 344 Hobart William Smith Colleges, Geneva
• 372 Ithaca College, Ithaca
• 373 SUNY at Fredonia, Fredonia
• 382 SUNY College at Oswego, Oswego
• 402 Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester
• 405 SUNY College of Technology at Alfred, Alfred
• 407 Fordham University, Bronx
• 418 College of Mount Saint Vincent, Bronx
• 424 Hilbert College, Hamburg
• 425 SUNY College at Potsdam, Potsdam
• 432 Alfred University, Alfred
• 439 Saint John Fisher College, Rochester
• 440 SUNY College at Old Westbury, Old Westbury
• 445 St John's University-New York, Queens
• 458 Adelphi University, Garden City
• 464 Houghton College, Houghton
• 468 St Bonaventure University, Saint Bonaventure
• 478 Elmira College, Elmira
• 479 Wagner College, Staten Island
• 499 SUNY at Purchase College, Purchase
• 507 Touro College, New York
• 508 Daemen College, Amherst
• 515 Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry
• 546 Keuka College, Keuka Park
• 562 The College of Saint Rose, Albany
• 585 Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester
• 587 Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson
• 595 SUNY Buffalo State, Buffalo
• 603 Utica College, Utica
• 617 SUNY College of Technology at Delhi, Delhi
• 627 Dominican College of Blauvelt, Orangeburg
• 643 Hofstra University, Hempstead
• 647 Pratt Institute-Main, Brooklyn
• 668 Nazareth College, Rochester
• 674 SUNY College of Technology at Canton, Canton
• 681 Cazenovia College, Cazenovia
• 687 The New School, New York
• 701 Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville
• 706 Nyack College, New York
• 714 St Francis College, Brooklyn Heights

According to Money, the top 10 colleges for your money are:

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2. Stanford University, Stanford, California.
3. Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
4. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
5. Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
6. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
7. Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
8. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
9. University of California-San Diego
10. University of California-Davis

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