With back-to-school season upon us and a year of community college nearly three times less expensive than a year at a public four-year college, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2018’s Best & Worst Community Colleges, coupled with its state-by-state ranking of the Best & Worst Community-College Systems as well as accompanying videos.

To determine where students can receive the best education at the cheapest rates, WalletHub compared 715 community colleges across 17 key indicators of cost and quality. The data set ranges from the cost of in-state tuition and fees to student-faculty ratio to graduation rate. [Continue below]

Top 20 Community Colleges
1 Arkansas State University-Mountain Home (AR) 11 Lake Area Technical Institute (SD)
2 Stella and Charles Guttman Community College (NY) 12 Columbia Gorge Community College (OR)
3 State Technical College of Missouri (MO) 13 St Cloud Technical and Community College (MN)
4 Alexandria Technical & Community College (MN) 14 South Central College (MN)
5 Northland Community and Technical College (MN) 15 South Arkansas Community College (AR)
6 Minnesota State Community and Technical College (MN) 16 Madisonville Community College (KY)
7 Mitchell Technical Institute (SD) 17 North Arkansas College (AR)
8 Miles Community College (MT) 18 Ozarka College (AR)
9 Southern Arkansas University Tech (AR) 19 Lake Superior College (MN)
10 North Hennepin Community College (MN) 20 Manhattan Area Technical College (KS)
States with the Best Community-College Systems
1 South Dakota 11 Wisconsin
2 Minnesota 12 California
3 Montana 13 Wyoming
4 Arkansas 14 Colorado
5 New York 15 Hawaii
6 Kentucky 16 New Hampshire
7 North Dakota 17 Kansas
8 Tennessee 18 Nebraska
9 Oregon 19 New Mexico
10 Washington 20 Arizona

Read the full reports:
Individual Schools: https://wallethub.com/edu/best-worst-community-colleges/15076/

School Systems: https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-best-worst-community-college-systems/15073/