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
Industrial Technical College
Humacao, PR
$4,665$20,217$17,1628.2x
State Technical College of Missouri
Linn, MO
$15,190$58,407$55,9018.2x
Wofford College
Spartanburg, SC
$18,732$65,763$68,9648.2x
University of Southern Indiana
Evansville, IN
$12,923$56,399$47,6058.2x
University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg
Greensburg, PA
$17,945$73,701$66,1258.2x
University of Arkansas Hope-Texarkana
Hope, AR
$9,270$34,1628.2x
Mountain Empire Community College
Big Stone Gap, VA
$8,852$43,703$32,6228.2x
University of Idaho
Moscow, ID
$14,831$60,330$54,6708.2x
Radford University
Radford, VA
$14,578$57,832$53,7398.2x
Universidad Central Del Caribe
Bayamon, PR
$8,524$39,392$31,4688.2x
University of Maine at Augusta
Augusta, ME
$10,924$51,475$40,3428.2x
Clark College
Vancouver, WA
$11,465$49,337$42,3568.2x
Georgetown College
Georgetown, KY
$14,095$54,370$52,0748.2x
Towson University
Towson, MD
$17,413$65,610$64,3908.2x
Mercy University
Dobbs Ferry, NY
$14,072$62,616$52,0558.2x
Glendale Community College
Glendale, AZ
$11,650$76,750$43,1088.3x
Central College of Cosmetology
Saint Robert, MO
$6,166$21,553$22,8218.3x
Northland Pioneer College
Holbrook, AZ
$9,240$62,405$34,1998.3x
Northeastern Illinois University
Chicago, IL
$14,109$60,607$52,2348.3x
Atlantic Technical College
Coconut Creek, FL
$10,414$40,638$38,5608.3x
SABER College
Miami, FL
$11,009$36,937$40,8168.3x
Monterey Peninsula College
Monterey, CA
$11,373$42,1768.3x
Unitek College
South San Francisco, CA
$23,676$64,415$87,8778.3x
Western Carolina University
Cullowhee, NC
$13,315$54,667$49,4588.3x
Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology
Boston, MA
$15,488$57,093$57,5568.3x