2013 College ROI Rankings: Best ROI by Type
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*Public school rankings are based on in-state tuition. Out-of-state tuition information can be found on the
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Rank School Name (PayScale) School Type (IPEDS) 30-Year Net 1 Harvey Mudd College Private not-for-profit $2,113,000 2 California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Private not-for-profit $1,991,000 3 Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) Private not-for-profit $1,622,000 4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Private not-for-profit $1,606,000 5 SUNY - Maritime College Public (In-State) $1,586,000 6 Colorado School of Mines Public (In-State) $1,574,000 7 Stevens Institute of Technology Private not-for-profit $1,461,000 8 Georgia Institute of Technology Public (In-State) $1,389,000 9 Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (RHIT) Private not-for-profit $1,354,000 10 Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Private not-for-profit $1,316,000
Rank School Name (PayScale) School Type (IPEDS) 30-Year Net 1 Harvard University Private not-for-profit $1,334,000 2 Dartmouth College Private not-for-profit $1,262,000 3 Princeton University Private not-for-profit $1,234,000 4 University of Pennsylvania Private not-for-profit $1,220,000 5 Columbia University Private not-for-profit $1,175,000 6 Brown University Private not-for-profit $1,118,000 7 Cornell University - Ithaca, NY Private not-for-profit $1,117,000 8 Yale University Private not-for-profit $954,300
Rank School Name (PayScale) School Type (IPEDS) 30-Year Net 1 Harvey Mudd College Private not-for-profit $2,113,000 2 Claremont McKenna College Private not-for-profit $1,341,000 3 Williams College Private not-for-profit $1,254,000 4 Haverford College Private not-for-profit $1,222,000 5 Swarthmore College Private not-for-profit $1,139,000 6 Lafayette College Private not-for-profit $1,119,000 7 Bucknell University Private not-for-profit $1,094,000 8 Washington and Lee University Private not-for-profit $1,053,000 9 Hamilton College - Clinton, NY Private not-for-profit $1,030,000 10 Amherst College Private not-for-profit $1,024,000
Rank School Name (PayScale) School Type (IPEDS) 30-Year Net 1 SUNY - Maritime College Public (In-State) $1,586,000 2 Colorado School of Mines Public (In-State) $1,574,000 3 Georgia Institute of Technology Public (In-State) $1,389,000 4 Massachusetts Maritime Academy Public (In-State) $1,316,000 5 South Dakota School of Mines & Technology Public (In-State) $1,228,000 6 New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) Public (In-State) $1,223,000 7 Missouri University of Science and Technology (MST) Public (In-State) $1,183,000 8 University of California - Berkeley Public (In-State) $1,182,000 9 California Polytechnic State University (CalPoly) - San Luis Obispo Public (In-State) $1,151,000 10 University of Massachusetts (UMass) - Lowell Campus Public (In-State) $1,094,000
Rank School Name (PayScale) School Type (IPEDS) 30-Year Net 1 California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Private not-for-profit $1,991,000 2 Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) Private not-for-profit $1,622,000 3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Private not-for-profit $1,606,000 4 Colorado School of Mines Public (In-State) $1,574,000 5 Stevens Institute of Technology Private not-for-profit $1,461,000 6 Stanford University Private not-for-profit $1,432,000 7 Georgia Institute of Technology Public (In-State) $1,389,000 8 Harvard University Private not-for-profit $1,334,000 9 Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Private not-for-profit $1,316,000 10 Dartmouth College Private not-for-profit $1,262,000
Rank School Name (PayScale) School Type (IPEDS) 30-Year Net 1 Otis College of Art and Design Private not-for-profit $888,300 2 California College of the Arts Private not-for-profit $767,100 3 Academy of Art University Private for-profit $713,000 4 Pratt Institute Private not-for-profit $654,400 5 College for Creative Studies Private not-for-profit $567,900 6 School of Visual Arts (SVA) - New York, NY Private for-profit $486,300 7 Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Private not-for-profit $424,300 8 Massachusetts College of Art and Design Public (In-State) $412,200 9 Minneapolis College of Art and Design Private not-for-profit $393,100 10 School of the Art Institute of Chicago Private not-for-profit $276,700
Rank School Name (PayScale) School Type (IPEDS) 30-Year Net 1 Babson College Private not-for-profit $1,228,000 2 Bentley University Private not-for-profit $919,800 3 Bryant University Private not-for-profit $847,900 4 Saint Joseph's University (SJU) - Philadelphia, PA Private not-for-profit $775,000 5 Park University Private not-for-profit $644,100 6 Nichols College Private not-for-profit $612,000 7 Indiana Wesleyan University (IWU) Private not-for-profit $516,500 8 Southern New Hampshire University Private not-for-profit $467,100 9 Post University Private for-profit $457,900 10 Robert Morris University (RMU) - Moon Township, PA Private not-for-profit $439,300
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