Colleges that offer the best ROI

urbanslaughter
Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:07:32 +0000

Not to mention that the rankings ignore two extremely important factors. First pay is greatly impacted by the region you choose to live in. If you’re living in VT you’re certainly likely to make less than someone living in NYC - but you may have a much higher standard of living. Second, Middlebury - which has possibly the best environmental studies program in the country, and one of the best international relations programs in the country - puts a lot of alums into those fields, which while very influential, they’re not particularly remunerative. Basically, this is a stupid ranking. I hope Middlebury is not selecting students based on how much they’ll make in the future. I’m grateful I was not surrounded by a lot of Gordon Geckos while I was there (for those of you too young to remember, that’s a reference to the movie, “Wall Street”).