With the first “early decision” college-application deadline on Thursday, Nov. 1, the personal-finance website WalletHub compared nearly 1,000 higher-education institutions in the United States based on 30 key measures, including student selectivity, cost and finance and career outcomes.
The data set also includes student-faculty ratios, graduation rates and post-attendance median salaries.
The top colleges and universities in Tennessee are:
1. Vanderbilt University in Nashville
2. Rhodes College in Memphis