Top 10 best value private colleges in America

#6 – Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine

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This 2009 file photo shows prospective students and their parents touring the Bowdoin campus, still snowy on March 19.

Bowdoin is the northernmost of our Top 10 schools, and has the second highest sticker price, at $53,680. Financial aid reduces that by 63 percent, down to a net price of $20,000, and most Polar Bears (yes, that's their mascot) graduate with $18,000 in debt.

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