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Which colleges pay off? PayScale crunched the numbers to compute the best returns on investment—by comparing the cost of a degree against what its students earn upon graduation—and Huffington Post rounds up the best of the bunch:
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: annual ROI: 12.6%; 30-year ROI: $1.69 million
- California Institute of Technology: 12.6%; $1.64 million
- Harvard: 12.5%; $1.63 million
- Harvey Mudd College: 12.5%; $1.63 million
- Dartmouth: 12.4%; $1.59 million
- Stanford: 12.3%; $1.57 million
- Princeton: 12.3%; $1.52 million
- Yale: 11.9%; $1.39 million
- Notre Dame: 12.2%; $1.38 million
- University of Pennsylvania: 11.8%; $1.36 million
See the Huffington Post slideshow
here and PayScale's complete rankings
here.
