Colleges by ROI

6,273 schools

ROI = (10yr median earnings × 10 − 4 × net price) / (4 × net price), shown as a multiple of 4 years' net price. Sourced from Common Data Set filings and College Scorecard. 1,941 schools are missing the cost or earnings data needed to calculate ROI and appear at the bottom, unranked.

Tuition
Financial aid
Net price
Earnings (4yr)
Earnings (10yr)
ROI
Dallas Christian College
Dallas, TX
$22,960$47,383$43,5033.7x
Institute of Beauty Careers
Arecibo, PR
$9,357$14,521$17,7133.7x
Harcum College
Bryn Mawr, PA
$24,776$47,904$46,8273.7x
Aveda Arts & Sciences Institute Minneapolis
Minneapolis, MN
$18,345$38,850$34,6593.7x
Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology
Riverside, CA
$32,601$69,101$61,5753.7x
Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico-Ponce
Ponce, PR
$13,192$27,811$24,9083.7x
George Fox University
Newberg, OR
$31,679$69,145$59,7613.7x
Holy Cross College
Notre Dame, IN
$26,728$46,024$50,4163.7x
Moler Hollywood Beauty Academy
Cincinnati, OH
$9,456$17,8323.7x
Casal Institute of Nevada
Las Vegas, NV
$13,414$30,042$25,2933.7x
Aveda Institute-Denver
Denver, CO
$20,167$39,155$38,0203.7x
Webster University
Saint Louis, MO
$27,047$75,697$50,8763.7x
Friends University
Wichita, KS
$27,715$57,698$52,1133.7x
Herzing University-Birmingham
Birmingham, AL
$19,651$58,575$36,9093.7x
Grand Canyon University
Phoenix, AZ
$22,472$74,343$42,1863.7x
Arkansas Beauty College
Russellville, AR
$8,985$16,8573.7x
Prescott College
Prescott, AZ
$22,583$49,339$42,3593.7x
Defiance College
Defiance, OH
$26,337$46,468$49,3513.7x
Marist University
Poughkeepsie, NY
$41,544$78,561$77,8193.7x
Maharishi International University
Fairfield, IA
$14,956$27,9813.7x
Hannibal-LaGrange University
Hannibal, MO
$22,814$46,655$42,6433.7x
Queens University of Charlotte
Charlotte, NC
$30,857$70,176$57,6733.7x
Avalon Institute-Layton
Layton, UT
$16,501$33,261$30,8033.7x
Southwestern College
Winfield, KS
$29,824$64,687$55,6463.7x
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
$28,010$13,144$38,824$81,751$72,4243.7x