
10 Colleges Worth the Cash
Two academics concerned about higher education in the U.S. have made a list of 10 colleges that are worth the money.



![Hacker and Dreifus say the Notre Dame campus “looks spartan when compared to Williams or Dartmouth [and] the school has successfully avoided the faddish academic trends and the compulsive consumerism that has overwhelmed many other colleges.” It also has a low twelve-to-one student-faculty ratio and the university’s president, Reverend John Jenkins, fiercely protects academic freedom, even if it doesn’t jibe with the Catholic church’s religious doctrines. Furthermore, the authors are impressed he donates all $475,000 of his salary back to the university. Photo Credit: Photo Credit: Paul J. Everett](https://www.thestreet.com/.image/c_fill%2Ccs_srgb%2Cg_face%2Ch_80%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_80/MTY4NjI1NjU5OTI5NDM4MTAz/university-of-notre-dame.jpg)









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Two academics concerned about higher education in the U.S. have made a list of 10 colleges that are worth the money.
Recently, we here at MainStreet published an interview with Claudia Dreifus, co-author (with Andrew Hacker) of the controversial book Higher Education: How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids— and What We Can Do About It. In the interview, Dreifus details the reason she believes investing in a college education is becoming a losing proposition for young Americans. In fact, Hacker and Dreifus even take big Ivy League schools like Harvard and Yale to task as examples of U.S. colleges that just aren’t worth the money. But the authors also point to some U.S. colleges offering college students an academic experience that is well worth the money. MainStreet asked the authors for a list of their top U.S. colleges. Here’s what they delivered. Photo Credit: bensonkua