SAN DIEGO - UC San Diego is ranked 16th nationally on a list of the 100 best values in public education, the University of California announced today.

Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine first ranked schools based on freshman SAT or ACT scores, admission rates, student-faculty ratios and other measures of academic quality.

Then each school was ranked on a combination of quality and cost, including fees and tuition, room and board, the average percentage of need met by financial aid and the average student debt upon graduation.

Eight schools in the UC system made Kiplinger's top 100: UCSD; Cal Berkeley (9th); UCLA (28); UC Davis (35); UCI (36); UC Santa Barbara (60); UC Santa Cruz (79) and UC Riverside (94).