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
Curry College
Milton, MA
$29,207$72,447$54,4003.7x
Trinity College of Jacksonville
Jacksonville, FL
$20,011$47,042$37,2753.7x
Avi Career Training
vienna, VA
$15,361$26,411$28,6153.7x
Delta Technical College-Mississippi
Horn Lake, MS
$18,032$36,025$33,6013.7x
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, WA
$24,319$44,424$45,3203.7x
Fisher College
Boston, MA
$26,649$57,557$49,6693.7x
ECPI University
Virginia Beach, VA
$22,965$54,409$42,8373.7x
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
$28,010$13,144$38,824$81,751$72,4243.7x
Southwestern College
Winfield, KS
$29,824$64,687$55,6463.7x
Avalon Institute-Layton
Layton, UT
$16,501$33,261$30,8033.7x
Queens University of Charlotte
Charlotte, NC
$30,857$70,176$57,6733.7x
Hannibal-LaGrange University
Hannibal, MO
$22,814$46,655$42,6433.7x
Maharishi International University
Fairfield, IA
$14,956$27,9813.7x
Marist University
Poughkeepsie, NY
$41,544$78,561$77,8193.7x
Defiance College
Defiance, OH
$26,337$46,468$49,3513.7x
Prescott College
Prescott, AZ
$22,583$49,339$42,3593.7x
Arkansas Beauty College
Russellville, AR
$8,985$16,8573.7x
Grand Canyon University
Phoenix, AZ
$22,472$74,343$42,1863.7x
Herzing University-Birmingham
Birmingham, AL
$19,651$58,575$36,9093.7x
Friends University
Wichita, KS
$27,715$57,698$52,1133.7x
Webster University
Saint Louis, MO
$27,047$75,697$50,8763.7x
Aveda Institute-Denver
Denver, CO
$20,167$39,155$38,0203.7x
Casal Institute of Nevada
Las Vegas, NV
$13,414$30,042$25,2933.7x
Moler Hollywood Beauty Academy
Cincinnati, OH
$9,456$17,8323.7x
Holy Cross College
Notre Dame, IN
$26,728$46,024$50,4163.7x