SAN BERNARDINO>>MONEY magazine has once again ranked Cal State San Bernardino among the country’s top 711 Best Colleges for Your Money listings.
Under the rankings, CSUSB was listed 145th, tied with fellow California State University campus, the California Maritime Academy, in the survey.
“To be listed as being a good educational value is a tribute to the hard work of our faculty, staff and administrators who take pride in ensuring that Cal State San Bernardino provides an outstanding quality education to our students, many of whom are the first in their families to attend college,” said university President Tomás D. Morales.
To qualify for the listings, colleges had to have at least 500 students, have sufficient reliable data to be analyzed, not be in financial distress, and have a graduation rate that was at or above the median for its institutional category (public or private), or have a high “value-added” graduation rate.
Out of 2,400 colleges surveyed, 711 of the institutions met those requirements and were ranked on 27 factors in three categories:
The quality of education focusing on the six-year graduation rate, value-added graduation rate, peer quality, instructor quality and financial troubles that can affect the quality of education as a growing number of schools are facing funding challenges;
Affordability focusing on the net price of a degree, debt, student loan repayment and default risk, value-added student loan repayment measures, and affordability for low-income students;
And outcomes focusing on graduates’ earnings, earnings adjusted by majors, college scorecard 10-year earnings, estimated market value of alumni’s average job skills, value-added earnings, job meaning and socio-economic mobility index – the percentage of students at each school that moves from low-income backgrounds to upper-middle class jobs by the time the student is 34 years old.