Choosing the perfect college can be a stressful and expensive, but a recent report from the career-building and salary-tracking website PayScale can help with that process.

Grove City College is in the top 12 percent of colleges in PayScale's Best Value rankings based on positive graduate outcomes such as Starting Salaries, Midcareer earnings, and more.  Grove City also scored even higher in a half-dozen rundowns of specialty schools. 

PayScale ranks the colleges and universities by looking at the monetary return on a college education based on the cost of attendance and alumni's earning potential to determine a school's return on investment. 

According to PayScale Grove City will yield over 400% return over two decades. The review is based on a rough cost of attendance of $105,000 and estimated average earnings over and above those without a College degree of $431,000. Grove City College graduates will have an average starting salary of $56,000 and average mid-career earnings of $108,900 per year, according to PayScale. 

Grove City College Ranked in these categories by PayScale Best Value:

#11 in Pennsylvania
#23 in Religious Colleges
#22 in Liberal Arts
#7 in Sober Schools
#91 in Private Colleges
#91 in Engineering Schools (Where more than 50 percent of degrees are in STEM disciplines.)

The recognition from PayScale comes in addition to "best value" accolades from several nationally recognized evaluators. Those evaluators are The Princeton Review, Forbes, College Raptor, and U.S News.

Grove City is the least expensive private college in Pennsylvania, with average tuition less than $18,000. They also don't accept any federal aid, including student loans and grants. Private loans and generous need and merit-based aid packages are available to most students, making it possible for most to graduate with little debt and nearly 45 percent graduate with no debt. 

Grove City also has a solid record of graduates' positive outcomes, including an 81 percent 4-year graduation rate and 96 perfect success rate for recent graduates seeking work or graduate school placement. 

The College's Career Services Offices is also ranked 8th in the nation by the Princeton Review, and Grove City is also ranked in the top ten for Best Schools for internships.