Students looking for the best values in education may want to take a look at this list of the 25 Most Underrated Colleges, from Business Insider.

Who says U.S. News & World Report has the monopoly on ranking colleges? Business Insider has gotten in on the action, saying “it turns out there are some majorly underrated and overrated schools.”

Business Insider created its own methodology, noting that ”in order to determine which schools were underrated (and overrated), we considered two factors: reputation and salary. We figured that schools with a bad reputation but a high salary would be underrated, and schools with a great reputation but terrible salary would be overrated.”

Here’s the list, but visit Business Insider’s website for a fuller explanation of why each one was picked:

#25 Widener University
#24 Northern Illinois University
#23 University of San Francisco
#22 Michigan Technological University
#21 University of the Pacific
#20 Hampden-Sydney College
#19 Catholic University of America
#18 Adelphi University
#17 Oregon State University
#16 George Mason University
#15 University of Houston
#14 Illinois Institute of Technology
#13 University of Colorado–​Denver
#12 Hofstra University
#11 Louisiana Tech University
#10 Missouri University of Science & Technology
#9 San Diego State University
#8 Clarkson University
#7 University of Maryland–​Baltimore County
#6 Texas Tech University
#5 Pace University
#4 Florida Institute of Technology
#3 New Jersey Institute of Technology
#2 Polytechnic Institute of New York University

And the No. 1 university on this list?

#1 University of Massachusetts–​Lowell

Ranked #680 in our composite of U.S. News’s  college and university lists.

…Note: Although U.S. News ranks colleges and universities  separately, we combined these lists by doubling the ranking. Read  the full methodology here.

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