UChicago: Bad Bang for the $ ?

mancune
Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:08:03 +0000

Businessinsider.com, a prominent Wall Street blog, examined the ROI (Return on Investment) over 30 years of various undergraduate degrees. They used the current cost of 4 years as the investment, and the total earnings over 30 years using data supplied by surveys done by Payscale Inc. to arrive at return. They then look at the 20 colleges where academic quality, as measured by US News rank, diverges significantly from rank in terms of return. Chicago rounds out this list, with an academic rank of 8 but an ROI rank of 35.

[20 Prestigious Colleges That Offer An Ugly Return On Your Investment](20 Prestigious Colleges That Offer an Ugly Return on Your Investment)

What do you think, as good as it is, is Chicago overpriced relative to its peers? Might Chicagoans be better off in the Ivy League after all?