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Where to go to get the Highest Return on Investment in your College Education

How many of you went to college?  More importantly – how many of you are still paying off your student loans?

Perhaps the size of your outstanding student loan payments can be directly related to what school you went to versus the career you chose.

Paying for College Without Going Broke
Paying for College Without Going Broke

That’s because there can be a DIRECT CORRELATION BETWEEN THE SCHOOL YOU ATTENDED AND THE SALARY YOUR SUBSEQUENT CAREER PROVIDED YOU.

In other words, you can calculate the ROI – Return on Investment – of your college education over a 30-year career.  And some colleges are better suited for giving you a higher payback on your tuition investment than others.

And it does depend on major.

Here are the TOP FIVE UNIVERSITIES FOR BUSINESS MAJORS

  • University of Pennsylvania
  • Creighton
  • Notre Dame
  • UC Berkeley
  • Fairfield University

For COMPUTER SCIENCE

  • UC Berkeley
  • Stanford
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • Dartmouth
  • UC Santa Cruz

For ENGINEERING

  • Harvey Mudd
  • Caltexh
  • Stanford
  • Yale
  • Columbia

For ENGLISH / HUMANITIES

  • Harvard
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • UC Berkeley
  • James Madison
  • CalPoly

For POLITICAL SCIENCE

  • Stanford
  • William and Mary
  • UC San Diego
  • James Madison
  • University of Oklahoma