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
Caribbean University-Vega Baja
Vega Baja, PR
$5,235$26,954$22,8429.9x
Dutchess Community College
Poughkeepsie, NY
$10,065$44,694$43,9299.9x
Minnesota North College
Hibbing, MN
$10,432$54,100$45,5709.9x
Edmonds College
Lynnwood, WA
$11,010$52,875$48,1449.9x
Central Georgia Technical College
Warner Robins, GA
$7,052$42,979$30,8489.9x
Centralia College
Centralia, WA
$9,862$52,981$43,1409.9x
Rowan-Cabarrus Community College
Salisbury, NC
$7,981$43,916$34,9369.9x
Northwestern Oklahoma State University
Alva, OK
$10,104$51,228$44,35810.0x
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Greensboro, NC
$10,965$51,594$48,16010.0x
Ashtabula County Technical and Career Campus
Jefferson, OH
$9,599$47,950$42,16310.0x
Wichita State University-Campus of Applied Sciences and Technology
Wichita, KS
$8,805$47,431$38,67910.0x
New Mexico State University-Main Campus
Las Cruces, NM
$8,889$54,874$39,06710.0x
Umpqua Community College
Roseburg, OR
$8,340$46,257$36,67610.0x
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
Albany, NY
$29,882$113,282$131,42610.0x
Howard Community College
Columbia, MD
$11,133$57,920$49,02010.0x
Truman State University
Kirksville, MO
$12,780$56,947$56,28010.0x
University of Connecticut-Stamford
Stamford, CT
$16,798$78,925$73,99710.0x
Louisiana Tech University
Ruston, LA
$11,864$61,520$52,27910.0x
The University of Texas Permian Basin
Odessa, TX
$12,723$63,864$56,07310.0x
Cascadia College
Bothell, WA
$12,281$50,202$54,13310.0x
Morehead State University
Morehead, KY
$9,793$50,224$43,19710.0x
University of Baltimore
Baltimore, MD
$13,868$67,949$61,33510.1x
Galveston College
Galveston, TX
$8,412$66,991$37,23310.1x
New Community Career & Technical Institute
Newark, NJ
$9,075$32,679$40,20010.1x
California State University-Chico
Chico, CA
$14,480$65,228$64,17210.1x