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The University of Virginia and Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania have topped the Princeton Review’s list of the 100 best-value public and private institutions for the second year in a row.

The test prep company’s annual list highlights 50 four-year private and 50 four-year public universities that provide high-quality academics at a reasonable price, either by controlling costs or offsetting them with stellar financial aid packages.

This year, Princeton Review teamed with USA Today, which is owned by the parent company of Military Times, to publish the full list online. Statistics and analysis about students, admissions, academics and financial information are available at http://bestvaluecolleges.usatoday.com.

Public

1. University of Virginia (Charlottesville)

2. City University of New York-Hunter College (New York)

3. New College of Florida (Sarasota)

4. Florida State University (Tallahassee)

5. University of Colorado-Boulder

6. State University of New York-Binghamton

7. University of Georgia (Athens)

8. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Blacksburg)

9. Texas A&M University (College Station)

10. University of Oklahoma (Norman)

Private

1. Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, Pa.)

2. Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.)

3. Wesleyan College (Macon, Ga.)

4. Princeton University (Princeton, N.J.)

5. Yale University (New Haven, Conn.)

6. Williams College (Williamstown, Mass.)

7. Rice University (Houston)

8. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.)

9. Amherst College (Amherst, Mass.)

10. Wellesley College (Wellesley, Mass.)