{"id":16010,"date":"2017-07-12T14:59:56","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T18:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quantumnew.esu.edu\/insider\/?p=16010"},"modified":"2017-07-14T08:38:42","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T12:38:42","slug":"esu-named-to-money-magazine-list-of-best-colleges-for-your-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/esu-named-to-money-magazine-list-of-best-colleges-for-your-money\/","title":{"rendered":"ESU Named to Money Magazine List of Best Colleges for Your Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This story was written and published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lvb.com\/article\/20170712\/LVB01\/170719945\/area-schools-make-money-magazine-list-of-best-colleges-for-the-money\">Lehigh Valley Business<\/a> on July 12, 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Eight colleges and universities in the Greater Lehigh Valley made Money magazine&#8217;s list of \u201cbest colleges for your money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lafayette College ranked the highest of the area schools, coming in at No. 81 out of 711 that made the list.<\/p>\n<p>The other regional school rankings are:<\/p>\n<p>Lehigh University: 114.<\/p>\n<p>Muhlenberg College: 255.<\/p>\n<p>Moravian College: 280.<\/p>\n<p>Cedar Crest College: 402.<\/p>\n<p>DeSales University: 481.<\/p>\n<p>East Stroudsburg University: 632.<\/p>\n<p>Kutztown University: 640.<\/p>\n<p>The magazine said the findings show \u201cmore than 700 colleges offer at least a basic level of educational quality. And dozens of affordable schools have excellent track records of helping students attain opportunity and financial stability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Colleges were ranked based on 27 measures of educational quality, affordability and alumni success. Other factors included graduation rate, peer and instructor quality, net price of a degree, student debt and loan risk, graduates\u2019 earnings and average job skills.<\/p>\n<p>This list this year gave weight to new data that show how many low-income students the school propelled into the upper middle class over the past 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>The article said bragging rights these days go to schools it called the \u201cPaycheck League,\u201d schools that provide a boost in the job market.<\/p>\n<p>While all Ivy League colleges are in the so-called Paycheck League, the article stressed not to confused exclusivity with success. Some high-priced private schools rank lower than public schools because their alumni graduate with higher debt or aren\u2019t earning higher salaries compared to the cost of the tuition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colleges were ranked based on 27 measures of educational quality, affordability and alumni success.<span class=newshide\">Other factors included graduation rate, peer and instructor quality, net price of a degree, student debt and loan risk, graduates\u2019 earnings and average job skills.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":16013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[143,42,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-news-release","category-slider"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16010"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16040,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16010\/revisions\/16040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}