University of Montevallo

The University of Montevallo is a public university in Montevallo, Alabama. Founded in 1896, it is Alabama’s only public liberal arts college and a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges. Generally speaking, the University of Montevallo is widely considered a solid school academically for its 2,600 students. An added bonus is that Montevallo University is in the geographic center of Alabama in an area rich with Civil War history.

The University of Montevallo also has some famous undergraduate traditions, like the Life Raft Debate where students get to watch professors make a case for their discipline and why they should be included on the theoretical raft to re-establish humanity after a nuclear war. But fun traditions aside, students still struggle when it comes down to the numbers at the University of Montevallo, especially if they’re out of state students. Out of state students pay nearly $36,000 a year and get an ROI of -$64,100.