Ranking 4,500 Colleges by ROI (2022) Summary Using new data from the College Scorecard, we ranked 4,500 colleges and universities by return on investment. The rankings follow the methodology of our 2019 report, A First Try at ROI: Ranking 4,500 Colleges. The rankings include a new metric that measures the share of students at an institution whose earnings 6 years…
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The Colleges Where Low-Income Students Get the Highest ROI Summary College typically pays off for low-income students, but not as much as it does for their peers. Low-income students, whose families earn $30,000 or less per year, comprise more than one-third of college students. The Colleges Where Low-Income Students Get the Highest ROI finds that low-income students have a lower…
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Youth Policy How Can We Smooth the Rocky Pathway to Adulthood? While boosts in labor demand have helped young workers as the economy recovers from the COVID-19 recession, young people continue to grapple with a youth labor market that has been deteriorating for 20 years. Their prospects have been dimmed by three major recessions: the burst of the dot-com bubble…
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