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The 25 Best Public Colleges for Big Paychecks
UConn makes the list! According to the list, UConn graduates on average receive a net $464k "ROI" on their educational investment 20 years removed from graduation. Other schools on the list include Cal, UVA, Georgia Tech, Michigan, UCLA, and more.
"PayScale tallies earnings as a return on investment, or how much more you earn than a high school graduate, minus how much you paid for the degree. For students who pay the full sticker price, that math tends to disadvantage private colleges, since their sticker prices are so much higher than public universities. Even so, more than 60% of the top 50 colleges in PayScale's ranking are selective private schools. (Read about the colleges where studying the liberal arts pays off.)
But since the majority of college students attend public institutions in their home state, MONEY decided to look at the state schools most likely to pay off. (Although the Merchant Marine Academy is public, as one of the five U.S. service academies, it's not a state school.) We started with the schools' 20-year ROI, as calculated by PayScale based on in-state tuition, but then factored in the school's six-year graduation rate, eliminating any school where fewer than three-quarters of students earn a degree in that time period."
UConn makes the list! According to the list, UConn graduates on average receive a net $464k "ROI" on their educational investment 20 years removed from graduation. Other schools on the list include Cal, UVA, Georgia Tech, Michigan, UCLA, and more.
"PayScale tallies earnings as a return on investment, or how much more you earn than a high school graduate, minus how much you paid for the degree. For students who pay the full sticker price, that math tends to disadvantage private colleges, since their sticker prices are so much higher than public universities. Even so, more than 60% of the top 50 colleges in PayScale's ranking are selective private schools. (Read about the colleges where studying the liberal arts pays off.)
But since the majority of college students attend public institutions in their home state, MONEY decided to look at the state schools most likely to pay off. (Although the Merchant Marine Academy is public, as one of the five U.S. service academies, it's not a state school.) We started with the schools' 20-year ROI, as calculated by PayScale based on in-state tuition, but then factored in the school's six-year graduation rate, eliminating any school where fewer than three-quarters of students earn a degree in that time period."