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▼
Advanced Barber College and Hair Design
Weslaco, TX
——$38,486$17,654$18,5190.2x
Healing Hands School of Holistic Health
Escondido, CA
——$52,498$31,114$24,3660.2x
Pacific College of Health and Science
New York, NY
——$57,004$34,536$26,2090.1x
Compu-Med Vocational Careers Corp
Hialeah, FL
——$49,299$28,141$22,2260.1x
Dorsey School of Beauty
Taylor, MI
——$30,126$20,480$13,2560.1x
Bennington College
Bennington, VT
$67,850$53,616$89,147$38,899$38,2890.1x
Beauty Academy of South Florida
Hialeah Gardens, FL
——$52,816$15,281$16,826-0.2x
Clark University
Worcester, MA
—$41,033—$63,965$62,381—
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH
—$8,877—$72,188$54,810—
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA
———$101,748$105,584—
Lawrence University
Appleton, WI
—$41,781—$51,503$55,789—
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM
$15$15,983$15$59,818$44,792—
Smith College
Northampton, MA
———$57,618$64,027—
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX
———$66,144$62,454—
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY
—$14,706—$67,853$53,899—
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
—$17,157—$73,701$66,125—
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA
———$67,085$68,396—
Pacific School of Religion
Berkeley, CA
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Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT
—$70,348—$72,119$73,897—
Yeshiva University
New York, NY
—$39,331—$93,796$71,353—
Whitman College
Walla Walla, WA
—$59,565—$56,804$67,589—
St. John Vianney College Seminary
Miami, FL
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Merryfield Academy
Oakland Park, FL
——$9,096$26,886——
South Baylo University
Anaheim, CA
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Selma University
Selma, AL
———$21,666——