Listed below are the top 50 best value colleges for 2012.  For a full list of the top 100 go to Kiplinger's Top 100 Best Value Public Colleges.  There you will see how they were scored and prices for in-state and out-of-state tuitions.

1. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2. University of Florida
3. University of Virginia
4. College of William and Mary
5. New College of Florida
6. University of Georgia
7. University of California, Berkeley
8. University of Maryland, College Park
9. University of California, Los Angeles
10. University of California, San Diego
11. SUNY Geneseo
12. Binghamton University (SUNY)
13. University of Wisconsin-Madison
14. University of Washington
15. University of North Carolina at Wilmington
16. University of Michigan
17. University of California, Santa Barbara
18. Florida State University
19. North Carolina State University
20. University of California, Davis
21. Texas A&M University
22. University of California, Irvine
23. Truman State University (Mo.)
24. University of Texas at Austin
25. University of Delaware
26. College of New Jersey
27. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
28. James Madison University (Va.)
29. University of Pittsburgh (Pa.)
30. University of Connecticut
31. Georgia Institute of Technology
32. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
33. Appalachian State University (N.C.)
34. Clemson University (S.C.)
35. Stony Brook University (SUNY)
36. New Mexico Inst. of Mining and Tech.
37. Ohio State University
38. University of Buffalo (SUNY)
39. University of Central Florida
40. Indiana Univerity, Bloomington
41. North Carolina School of the Arts
42. St. Mary's College of Maryland
43. Rugters, State Univ. of N.J., New Brunswick
44. University of Mary Washington (Va.)
45. University of North Carolina, Asheville
46. University of Texas at Dallas
47. University of Iowa
48. Ramapo College of New Jersey
49. Michigan State University
50. George Mason University (Va.)

Source:  Kiplinger's Personal Finance, 02/2012