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Wheaton College Among Best Valued Private Schools

Princeton Review places college in top 75 in country.

has been named one of the top 75 best values among private schools in the country, according to the Princeton Review.

The 2012 "Best Value Colleges" evaluated hundreds of schools between the fall of 2010 and fall of 2011. The Princeton Review looked at several factors, including academic excellence and relative low cost of attendance, to compile the list.

The Review's description of Wheaton College states, "Wheaton College strives to cultivate students' knowledge and to 'prepare them to enter the world as strong and capable individuals who serve Christ and His Kingdom.' This 'academically rigorous' and deeply religious liberal arts school is equally as interested in the character of each student ... ."

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