A list of ROI I pulled from the Georgetown survey, by far I consider the most authoritative:
Caltech is doing just fine on this list (#18 for 20-year ROI and #19 for 40-year ROI) ahead of most schools on the list and out of a total of 4,500 schools. But this list also generates very interesting results and is more in line with the Forbes ranking than it is with the WSJ/USNWR. Top schools remain at the very top of the hierarchy. Most T10 are in the 800k+ range for 20-year ROI and $1.7 million range of 40-year ROI. However, some noticeable under-performers are Chicago (ranked #92 on 20-year ROI and #70 on 40-year ROI), Northwestern (#75 on 20-year ROI and #61 on 40-year ROI) and JHU (#68 on 20-year ROI and #50 on 40-year ROI) from the T10.
Also notice how most LACs are performing quite poorly compared to top private universities and outside the T20 (based on USNWR), the ROI is starting to be less different from top flagship state universities, which is similar to the Forbes ranking. What does this say about the state of liberal arts education, I wonder?
20-year ROI:
$1 million: Stanford, MIT
$950k-$1 million: Harvard
$900k-$950k: Georgetown
$850k-$900k: Penn, Harvey Mudd
$800k-$850k: Caltech, Yale, Georgia Tech, Columbia, Carnegie Mellon, Duke, Princeton
$750-$800k: Lehigh
$700-$750k: Notre Dame, Cornell, Washington and Lee, Dartmouth
$650-$600k: Claremont McKenna, Tufts, USC, JHU, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Case Western, Boston College, WashU, Rice, Berkeley, UChicago, Michigan,
$600-$650k: Cooper Union, Lafayette, Baruch, GWU, Emory, Northeastern, UMD, Holy Cross, Bucknell, Brown , UCLA, UWashington, Bowdoin, Amherst, Virginia Tech, UIUC, Colgate, UCSD, BYU, UVA, Drexel
$550k-$600k: Rutgers, Trinity (CT), U of Richmond, UC Irvine, Union, George Mason, Pomona, UT-Austin, Stony Brook, Pepperdine, UC Davis, Wellesley, Florida, Texas A&M, William & Mary, UConn, Colby, Davidson, Wake Forest, Hamilton, BU, UNC, Williams, Barnard
$500-$550k: SMU, Wisconsin-Madison, UMiami, UC Santa Barbara, Rochester, Bates, Syracuse, Haverford, University of Utah, Franklin & Marshall, Haverford, Middlebury, Swarthmore, Clemson, Dickinson, AU, NYU, Minnesota, Fordham, University of New Hampshire, Georgia, CUNY, University of Rhode Island, Brandeis, Bryn Mawr
40-year ROI:
$2 million: Stanford, MIT
$1.9 million: Harvard, Babson, Georgetown
$1.8 million: Harvey Mudd, Penn, Caltech
$1.7 million: Yale, Columbia, Duke, CMU, Georgia Tech
$1.6 million: Lehigh, Princeton, Notre Dame, Cornell
$1.5 million: Washington & Lee, Villanova, Dartmouth, Tufts, USC, Case Western, Claremont McKenna, JHU
$1.4 million: BC, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, WashU, Holy Cross, UChicago, GWU, Bucknell, Cal Poly, Lafayette
$1.3 million: Rice, Northeastern, Berkeley, Brown, Drexel, Emory, Michigan, Bowdoin, Amherst, Trinity, UMD, Colgate, Union, U of Richmond, Virginia Tech, Pepperdine, UCLA
$1.2 million: UIUC, BU, UVA, Wake Forest, Baruch, UCSD, BYU, UWashington, Wellesley, George Mason, UC Irvine, Hamilton, Syracuse, UT-Austin, Pomona, UC Davis, SMU, Rochester, Davidson, William & Mary, Stony Brook, UConn, Texas A&M, UMiami, Colby, Haverford, Williams, Delaware, Rutgers, U of Baltimore, NYU, Florida, Bates, Barnard
$1.1 million: AU, Franklin and Marshall, Middlebury, UNC, Purdue, James Madison, Wisconsin-Madison, Fordham, Swarthmore, UC Santa Barbara, Dickinson, UIC, Brandeis, Yeshiva, Gettysburg, Utah, Michigan State, Bryn Mawr, Clemson, Vassar
$1 million: U of Rhode Island, Minnesota, Connecticut College, Wesleyan, U of New Hampshire, Carleton, Georgia, UPitt, UMass-Amherst, Colorado-Boulder, Temple, CCNY, Wofford, Furman, Hampden-Sydney, Indiana-Bloomington, U of Kansas, Elon, Occidental, Baylor
900k: Howard, Arizona, Auburn, Skidmore, Grinnell, Denison, Oklahoma State, Kalamazoo, U of Vermont, U of Nevada-Las Vegas