college

Bloomberg Businessweek has an excellent, interactive table listing the return on investment (ROI) for more than 500 schools in the U.S. Ranking schools in dollars by 30-year net ROI, we see the usual suspects at the top of the list: MIT, Harvard, Dartmouth, Stanford, Princeton, Yale... and then at number 13 we find our friends at Union College. RPI appears at 20, Siena at 144. Interestingly, when you look at annualized rate of return, there's not a huge difference between Siena and Union (10.5% vs. 11.7%). And it will cost you about $50K more to attend Union, but the 30-year ROI doubles. Fun to explore the data, and kudos to Bloomberg Businessweek for doing an excellent job with the presentation.