Interesting College ROI Ranking

by Claudine Vainrub, Principal of EduPlan / Thursday, 09 May 2013 / Published in College Admissions, EduPlan Recommends Reading About...

If you still haven’t heard of Harvey Mudd College, it’s time to get informed! Again, Harvey Mudd tops a college ranking. Payscale’s 2012 ROI (Return On Investment) rankings measures the value students get back from the investment they make in their college education. The list is very interesting, as you will find in it some schools you might not have considered as choices for you (maybe you are unfamiliar with them, or thought their brand names were not strong). It’s definitely time to start considering all the options!

Here is a preview of the list:

1	Harvey Mudd College
2	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
4	Stanford University
5	Princeton University
6	Harvard University
7	Dartmouth College
8	Duke University
9	University of Pennsylvania
10	University of Notre Dame
11	Babson College
12	Lehigh University
13	Cornell University
14	Colorado School of Mines
15	Columbia University
16	Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)
17	Georgia Institute of Technology
18	Colorado School of Mines
19	Manhattan College
20	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
21	University of California, Berkeley
22	Lafayette College
23	Brown University
24	Stevens Institute of Technology
25	Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
26	Georgia Institute of Technology
27	Claremont McKenna College
28	Santa Clara University
29	Amherst College
30	Rice University
31	Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (RHIT)
32	Yale University
33	Colgate University
34	Villanova University
35	University of California, Berkeley
36	Georgetown University
37	Case Western Reserve University
38	Union College, New York
39	Williams College
40	College of the Holy Cross
40	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
42	Tufts University
43	State University of New York (SUNY) Maritime College
44	Bucknell University
45	Johns Hopkins University
46	Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly)
47	State University of New York (SUNY) Maritime College
48	Washington and Lee University
49	University of Virginia (UVA)
50	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
51	Wesleyan University (Middletown, Connecticut)
52	Vanderbilt University
53	Cooper Union
54	Wake Forest University
55	University of Southern California (USC)
56	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
57	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
58	Texas A&M University
59	New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
60	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)
61	The College of William and Mary
62	California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (CalPoly)
63	Massachusetts Maritime Academy
64	Loyola University Maryland
65	University of Virginia (UVA)
66	Clarkson University
67	University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
68	New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
69	Texas A&M University
70	University of Maryland (UMD)
71	University of Michigan
72	Rutgers University – New Brunswick
73	Missouri University of Science and Technology (MST)
74	Massachusetts Maritime Academy
75	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)
76	California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (CalPoly)
77	Drexel University
78	University Of Chicago
79	Swarthmore College
80	University of California, Irvine (UCI)
81	Bentley University
82	Rutgers University – New Brunswick
83	Missouri University of Science and Technology (MST)
84	Providence College
85	The College of William and Mary
86	University of Washington (UW)
87	Brigham Young University (BYU)
88	Stony Brook University
89	University of Maryland (UMD)
90	University of Texas (UT) – Austin
91	Washington University In St. Louis
92	University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
93	Boston College
94	Fairfield University
95	Kettering University
96	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
97	University of California, Davis (UC Davis)
98	Stony Brook University
99	Fordham University
100	Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
101	University of Michigan
102	Michigan Technological University
103	Purdue University
104	George Washington University (GWU)
105	New York University (NYU)
106	Binghamton University
107	Miami University
108	University of Washington (UW)
109	Clemson University
110	University of California, Irvine (UCI)
111	Boston University
112	University of Connecticut (UConn)
113	Bates College
114	University of Texas (UT) – Austin
115	Binghamton University
116	Dickinson College
117	University of Wisconsin (UW) – Madison
118	Michigan Technological University
119	Carleton College
120	Pomona College
121	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
122	University of California, Davis (UC Davis)
123	Marquette University
124	La Salle University (Philadelphia)
125	Purdue University
126	Miami University
127	Butler University
128	University of Massachusetts (UMass) – Lowell
129	Pennsylvania State University (PSU)
130	Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU)
131	Clemson University
132	University of Colorado – Boulder (UCB)
133	James Madison University (JMU)
134	California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
135	George Mason University
135	University of Redlands
137	University of Connecticut (UConn)
138	University of Florida (UF)
139	The College of New Jersey (TCNJ)
140	Bradley University
141	Milwaukee School of Engineering
142	Denison University
143	University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA
144	Saint Mary’s College of California
145	Emory University
146	Northwestern University
147	Southern Methodist University (SMU)
148	Merrimack College
149	University of Massachusetts (UMass) – Lowell
150	University of Wisconsin (UW) – Madison

View the entire article and rankings here – http://www.payscale.com/college-education-value-2012