After looking at 1,406 public and private colleges and universities across the country, Washington Monthly magazine has named Piedmont College among the institutions offering the “Best Bang for the Buck.” Piedmont took the 20th spot among 100 schools in the Southeast selected by the magazine for the “extent to which they charge students a reasonable price for quality education that will advance them in their careers,” the editors said. For the “Best Bang” category, institutions of all sizes were ranked based on a number of key variables, including net price, graduation rates, student loan repayments, income after graduation and the number of first-generation students attending.