How do colleges stack up on ROI?

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<p>Has this been posted yet? It’s a WSJ tool that tries to quantify the return-on-investment for various schools:</p>

<p><a href=“http://graphics.wsj.com/college-costs/#i[]=id115409&i[]=id196291&i[]=id234076&i[]=id126775&i[]=id139755&f=roi&d=all,All[/url]”>http://graphics.wsj.com/college-costs/#i[]=id115409&i[]=id196291&i[]=id234076&i[]=id126775&i[]=id139755&f=roi&d=all,All&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Enter your fave schools and see how they compare. The list expands as you add colleges to it.</p>

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<p>It didn’t find two schools I tried to get it to look up.
Perhaps schools have to choose to participate?</p>

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<p>Need to take the results with a grain of salt. Calculation seems to assume full pay. Also, earnings are affected by location (as many stay in the same region as their college). A lower salary may actually go farther than a higher one, if it is earned in a low cost region.</p>

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<p>It also does not appear to take into account the student’s major, which likely has more influence over starting and mid-career pay levels than the school attended.</p>

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<p>If 100 Harvard students were bribed to attend some directional public university, they would earn more on average than the other students at that university, because they are more intelligent and ambitious. A college ROI calculation that ignores the qualities of the students upon matriculation will give misleading results.</p>

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<p>Another study based on Payscale.com. Worthless.</p>