DEERFIELD, Ill., May 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- One hundred colleges and universities out of some 2,000 U.S. schools that offer four-year degrees have been ranked as the top values by Consumers Digest.

By Anonymous Ranked by Young America's Foundation (www.yaf.org) I Hillsdale College-Hillsdale, Mich. Founded in 1844, was the nation's first college to prohibit discrimination based on race, sex or religion in its charter. Has never taken a penny from the federal government.