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To help families better manage the cost of higher education, CNBC has named its and, for the second straight year, Thomas Aquinas ������ý has made the list.

Drawing upon Princeton Review data about the amount of financial aid that schools offer and students’ satisfaction with their aid packages, CNBC identifies Thomas Aquinas as one of the 10 schools in the country that are doing the most “to offset the cost of college.” The ������ý, it notes, “is not for every college-bound senior, but with a rolling campus, favorable student-to-teacher ratio, and generous aid packages, it could be worth a look.”

Thomas Aquinas ������ý, observes Jessica Dickler, CNBC’s personal finance writer, “funds 100 percent of demonstrated need for all students” — by way of campus jobs, reasonably capped student loans, and, when necessary, grants. For needy students, Ms. Dickler continues, the cost of attending Thomas Aquinas ������ý can be “less than it would cost to attend a public college in many cases.”

CNBC’s rankings come after similar accolades from other publications: The Princeton Review, for example, recently gave the ������ý a perfect financial-aid rating, while also placing it among the top 15 percent of American four-year colleges. Washington Monthly has ranked Thomas Aquinas ������ý among the top 100 American liberal arts colleges for “contribution to the public good” and No. 34 on its “Best Bang for the Buck” list for the Western United States. And Kiplinger has rated it one of the country’s “Best Values in Private ������ýs.”