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Rice University has been ranked No. 4 in the nation in Kiplinger’s Personal Finance’s 2009 study of the nation’s 100 best-value private colleges.

The top 100 schools were selected from a pool of 600 and were ranked based on student performance, faculty-to-student ratio, financial aid and average tuition, among other factors.

The average cost for a year of private school was about $35,000, up 4.3 percent from the year before, according to Kiplinger’s. However, colleges boosted financial aid by an average of 9 percent for the year.

Pomona College in California topped the ranking for the second year in a row. The full list will appear in the December issue of Kiplinger’s.

San Antonio’s Trinity University, at No. 31, was the only other Texas university to make the list.
(from Houston Business Chronicle)

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Correction: Houston Business Journal