Samford University’s national reputation as one of the nation’s leading private Christian universities has been affirmed by its jump in the Kiplinger’s Personal Finance’s list of the Top 300 Best College Values of 2017.
Samford was ranked No. 40 best value of the top private universities, up from No. 49 in the 2016 listing.
Samford also was ranked No. 130 in the overall combined list of public and private institutions, up from No. 165.
Samford has been on the Kiplinger list for multiple years and is the highest ranked university in Alabama for 2017. Samford is the only private university ranked from Alabama and is ranked ahead of the other three Alabama schools making the overall list.
The other Alabama schools are the University of Alabama (No. 195), Auburn University (No. 221) and Birmingham-Southern College (No. 223).
Introduced in 1998, the rankings now combine public and private universities and private liberal arts colleges into a single comprehensive list. (SU, TAB)
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