dude the best thing for you is to go to www.usnews.com and click education there you have the tool to search your colleges in the search criteria just mention how much you can affort less that 10k or less that 15k or what have you? and you can also select the location if you wanna liven down south and be a redneck or live in a city and be called a desi... when the result comes it would tell you what tier is it and what is it reputed for.. good luck