Ranking 4,600 Colleges by ROI (2025)

Using new data from the College Scorecard, we ranked 4,600 colleges and universities by return on investment. This data tool includes the ROI across multiple years, allowing for comparisons by institution across years, as well as comparisons by type of degrees in individual years.

This data tool contains more than 42,000 ROI calculations. It includes nine years of data for an average of 4,600 institutions per year.

Tabs, dropdown boxes, radio buttons, and drilldown facilitate exploration of the data. Additionally, chart legends act as filters. Hover over the bars of the chart for more information; click on the bars to see a list of institutions in that category.

(Please note that data were not collected in 2016 and 2017.)

All the data are also available as an interactive table (see the “Table” tab).

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