Great Value, Lifelong Investment

Great Value, Lifelong Investment

UT Knoxville provides students one of the best values in public ­education, according to The Princeton Review.

The Princeton Review ranks American colleges based on undergraduate academics, affordability, and financial aid for its annual “Best Value Colleges” list. The list features 50 public and 50 private colleges and universities. UT was the only university in Tennessee to make the public colleges list.

The 100 “best value” choices were selected from among more than 650 public and private colleges and universities using most recently reported data.

The Tennessee Pledge and Tennessee Promise scholarships target students from high schools that have not traditionally sent many of their graduates to UT Knoxville. They also allow students to graduate debt-free by paying for mandatory college costs not covered by other federal or state aid.

In addition, the university has launched the Achieve the Dream Program for fall 2009 that makes grant money available to Tennessee students from lower-middle–income families whose incomes are too high to qualify them for Pell Grants or the Pledge Scholarship, but who still need financial help with college costs.