College RoI by major and college
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Looks like another data aggregating blog click bait deal. But I'll play:
1. CalTech 2. MIT 3. Univ. of Health Sciences and Pharmacy (St. Louis) 4. Harvey Mudd 5. Stanford 6. Harvard 7. Olin College of Engineering 8. Carnegie Mellon 9. Penn 10. West Coast Univ., Los Angeles 11. Phillips School of Nursing 12. Columbia 13. Princeton 14. Johns Hopkins 15. Duke 16. Chicago 17. Babson 18. Cornell 19. Dartmouth 20. Stevens Inst. of Tech, New Jersey 21. Georgia Tech 22. American Univ. of Health Sciences, Signal Hill, CA 23. Georgetown 24. US Merchant Marine Acad. 25. Worcester Polytech 26. Yale 27. Lehigh 28. Santa Clara 31. Chamberlain Univ. 5 states listed 34. WashUniv in St. Louis 35. Bentely Univ, Waltham, MA 36. West Coast Univ., Orange County, CA 37.Maine Maritime Academy 38. Notre Dame 39. Northwestern 40. Rensselaer Polytech, Troy, NY 41. Villanova 42. Center for Allied Health Students, Brooklyn, NY 43. Mass. Maritime Academy 44. Rose Hulman Inst. of Tech, Indiana 45. Albany College of Pharmacy, Albany, NY 46. UC Berkeley 47. Colorado School of Mines 48. West Coast Univ., Dallas, TX 49. Claremont McKenna 50. Ohlone College, Fremont, CA 51.Cal. State Maritime Academy 52. SUNY Maritime Academy 53. West Coast Univ, Ontario, CA 54. Northeastern 55. Kettering, Flint Michigan 56. Washington and Lee 57. Laboure College of Healthcare, Milton, MA 58. Capitol Tech, Laurel, MD 59. Vanderbilt 60. USC 61. Michigan 62. Boston College 63. Chamberlain Univ, Houston, TX 64. Univ. of Virginia 65. Rice 66. George Washington Univ 67. Tufts 68. Cal Poly SLO 69. Univ. of Rochester 70. Bucknell 71. Wake Forest 72. Fairfield univ 73. Brown 74. SMU 75. St. Joes College of Nursing, Syracuse |
Stripped of for profit colleges and nursing/pharmacy colleges/maritime:
1. CalTech 2. MIT 3. Univ. of Health Sciences and Pharmacy (St. Louis) 4. Harvey Mudd 5. Stanford 6. Harvard 7. Olin College of Engineering 8. Carnegie Mellon 9. Penn 10. Columbia 11. Princeton 12. Johns Hopkins 13. Duke 14. Chicago 15. Babson 16. Cornell 17. Dartmouth 18. Stevens Inst. of Tech, New Jersey 19. Georgia Tech 20. Georgetown 21. Worcester Polytech 22. Yale 23. Lehigh 24. Santa Clara 25. WashUniv in St. Louis 26. Bentely Univ, Waltham, MA 27. Notre Dame 28. Northwestern 29. Rensselaer Polytech, Troy, NY 30. Villanova 31. Rose Hulman Inst. of Tech, Indiana 32. UC Berkeley 33. Colorado School of Mines 34. Claremont McKenna 35. Northeastern 36. Washington and Lee 37. Vanderbilt 38. USC 39. Michigan 40. Boston College 41. Univ. of Virginia 42. Rice 43. George Washington Univ 44. Tufts 45. Cal Poly SLO 46. Univ. of Rochester 47. Bucknell 48. Wake Forest 49. Fairfield univ 50. Brown 51. SMU |
Brown at 50??
And Wash Lee at 36? and no other LAC? |
Harvey Mudd College is at #4. |
No state Universities |
^ sorry. I missed Michigan, Ga Tech and UC Berkley |
The eight Ivies have a better return on investment than many other nonprofit four-year colleges, Bloomberg reported on Friday. The elite institutions have a typical 10-year ROI of $265,500, an analysis by the outlet shows. That’s twice the return of 63 “Hidden Ivies”—other top private colleges—and almost three times the median of all other schools included in Bloomberg’s research.
To get these numbers, Bloomberg used data from Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce. Notably, it doesn’t include students who paid full price to attend school. Rather, the data encompass those who got some financial aid from their university. For that group, the average Ivy alum earns $90,500 a year, according to Bloomberg, while those who went to a Hidden Ivy earn $72,600 a year. Plus, Ivy grads paid 18 percent less than Hidden Ivy grads. https://robbreport.com/lifestyle/finance/ivy-league-return-on-investment-1235580181/amp/ |
It depends on major too. My kid needed a T10- non-STEM |
I don’t know many turning down Ivies. I think parents will look for something to make themselves feel good. With 3-5% acceptance rate it’s a choice very few have the luxury of even making. |
Sameish list different day….seems in line with all the research we did before we approved our kids’ lists. The top 15 or so are no surprise, but some “peer” colleges of most of that group are far lower than expected |
makes the data a lot less relevant to most of dcum |
Nope. financial aid include any type of student loans and parent loan. It applies majority of of middle to upper middle class. This provides better real information eliminating trust fund type kids who work for their dads or fancy connections. Kids of Biden or Trump making $10mil means shit to average people and it should be omitted. |
This. Everyone I know in DMV (if kid remotely has stats) puts some Ivies on the list as ultra-reach. The conversation is always— kid is going to X—unless they get into an Ivy and then we will pay. Just look at this board and the industry of private counselors aimed at getting kids into an Ivy. It’s a Tiger Mom/Dad’s wet dream. When they don’t succeed, cue the veiled puppeted responses putting down the schools their kids got rejected from. |
100% trust fund non-workers or non-profit are eliminated. |