2013 ROI Rank	2013 Overall Rank	School	State	School Type	Annual Tuition ($)	Median Starting Salary ($)	Salary Earned Per Annual Tuition Dollar Spent ($)
1	45	Massachusetts - Amherst (Isenberg)	Massachusetts	Public	1,714	53,500	31.21
2	12	Brigham Young (Marriott)	Utah	Private	4,710	51,000	10.83
3	10	North Carolina - Chapel Hill (Kenan Flagler)	North Carolina	Public	5,823	60,000	10.30
4	57	Binghamton	New York	Public	5,570	57,000	10.23
5	64	California Polytechnic State (Orfalea)	California	Public	5,472	55,000	10.05
6	118	Louisiana State (Ourso)	Louisiana	Public	5,193	43,000	8.28
7	37	Florida (Warrington)	Florida	Public	6,170	51,000	8.27
8	113	Florida International (Landon)	Florida	Public	5,217	41,748	8.00
9	111	West Virginia	West Virginia	Public	5,794	45,000	7.77
10	95	North Carolina State (Poole)	North Carolina	Public	5,748	44,472	7.74
11	105	Arkansas - Fayetteville (Walton)	Arkansas	Public	6,141	46,000	7.49
12	103	Houston (Bauer)	Texas	Public	6,796	50,771	7.47
13	112	Buffalo	New York	Public	5,570	40,000	7.18
14	121	South Florida	Florida	Public	6,330	42,000	6.64
15	29	James Madison	Virginia	Public	8,808	58,000	6.58
16	41	Georgia Tech (Scheller)	Georgia	Public	7,718	50,000	6.48
17	27	William & Mary (Mason)	Virginia	Public	8,677	55,000	6.34
18	54	Connecticut	Connecticut	Public	8,712	55,000	6.31
18	89	Colorado State	Colorado	Public	6,874	43,390	6.31
20	73	Alabama - Tuscaloosa (Culverhouse)	Alabama	Public	9,200	58,000	6.30
20	114	Kansas State	Kansas	Public	6,829	43,000	6.30
22	13	Indiana (Kelley)	Indiana	Public	8,750	55,000	6.29
23	44	Georgia (Terry)	Georgia	Public	7,646	47,750	6.25
24	2	Virginia (McIntire)	Virginia	Public	9,622	60,000	6.24
25	88	Oklahoma (Price)	Oklahoma	Public	8,700	53,000	6.09
26	120	Tennessee - Chattanooga	Tennessee	Public	5,722	32,500	5.68
27	33	Texas A & M (Mays)	Texas	Public	9,330	52,000	5.57
28	50	Arizona (Eller)	Arizona	Public	9,114	50,000	5.49
29	100	Iowa (Tippie)	Iowa	Public	7,678	42,000	5.47
30	34	Ohio State (Fisher)	Ohio	Public	9,168	50,000	5.45
31	52	Virginia Tech (Pamplin)	Virginia	Public	9,187	50,000	5.44
32	76	Delaware (Lerner)	Delaware	Public	10,150	55,000	5.42
33	110	Kansas - Lawrence	Kansas	Public	8,790	47,250	5.38
34	77	Arizona State (Carey)	Arizona	Public	9,208	49,000	5.32
35	59	New Jersey	New Jersey	Public	10,102	53,400	5.29
36	58	Purdue (Krannert)	Indiana	Public	9,900	52,000	5.25
37	81	Rutgers - New Brunswick	New Jersey	Public	10,688	55,000	5.15
38	78	Missouri - Columbia (Trulaske)	Missouri	Public	9,272	47,500	5.12
38	9	Texas - Austin (McCombs)	Texas	Public	10,738	55,000	5.12
40	32	Wisconsin - Madison	Wisconsin	Public	10,273	52,000	5.06
41	117	Utah (Eccles)	Utah	Public	8,921	45,000	5.04
42	8	Michigan - Ann Arbor (Ross)	Michigan	Public	13,040	65,000	4.98
43	119	Rutgers - Newark	New Jersey	Public	10,356	50,000	4.83
44	86	Ohio	Ohio	Public	10,216	49,000	4.80
45	106	Northern Illinois	Illinois	Public	9,488	45,000	4.74
46	90	Bowling Green State	Ohio	Public	10,393	49,000	4.71
46	84	Cincinnati (Lindner)	Ohio	Public	9,124	43,000	4.71
46	108	Akron	Ohio	Public	9,553	45,000	4.71
46	87	South Carolina (Moore)	South Carolina	Public	10,088	47,499	4.71
50	116	Toledo	Ohio	Public	9,774	45,000	4.60
51	99	Illinois State	Illinois	Public	10,050	43,500	4.33
52	107	Oregon (Lundquist)	Oregon	Public	9,310	40,000	4.30
53	75	Texas - Dallas (Jindal)	Texas	Public	10,566	45,000	4.26
54	22	Miami U. (Farmer)	Ohio	Public	13,067	55,000	4.21
55	48	U. of Washington (Foster)	Washington	Public	12,383	52,000	4.20
56	39	Minnesota (Carlson)	Minnesota	Public	12,560	51,000	4.06
57	11	UC - Berkeley (Haas)	California	Public	14,985	60,000	4.00
58	122	Kentucky (Gatton)	Kentucky	Public	9,676	38,250	3.95
59	43	Michigan State (Broad)	Michigan	Public	13,800	52,000	3.77
60	94	Clemson	South Carolina	Public	11,870	44,195	3.72
61	101	Colorado - Boulder (Leeds)	Colorado	Public	12,646	46,700	3.69
62	123	Vermont	Vermont	Public	13,344	47,321	3.55
63	124	California - Riverside	California	Public	12,192	41,000	3.36
64	21	Illinois - Urbana-Champaign	Illinois	Public	16,556	55,000	3.32
65	26	Penn State - University Park (Smeal)	Pennsylvania	Public	17,824	56,000	3.14
66	82	Pittsburgh (Katz)	Pennsylvania	Public	17,568	48,000	2.73
67	3	Cornell (Dyson)	New York	Private	27,045	60,000	2.22
68	5	Pennsylvania (Wharton)	Pennsylvania	Private	39,088	70,000	1.79
69	60	DePaul (Driehaus)	Illinois	Private	31,650	55,000	1.74
70	96	Duquesne (Palumbo)	Pennsylvania	Private	27,668	48,000	1.73
71	19	MIT (Sloan)	Massachusetts	Private	41,770	70,000	1.68
72	66	Baylor (Hankamer)	Texas	Private	30,586	51,000	1.67
73	55	Tulsa (Collins)	Oklahoma	Private	32,410	53,500	1.65
74	42	Elon (Love)	North Carolina	Private	28,633	47,000	1.64
75	98	Bradley (Foster)	Illinois	Private	27,920	45,000	1.61
75	85	Seton Hall (Stillman)	New Jersey	Private	32,700	52,500	1.61
77	24	Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)	Pennsylvania	Private	44,880	70,000	1.56
78	51	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Massachusetts	Private	40,790	63,000	1.54
79	14	NYU (Stern)	New York	Private	41,358	63,250	1.53
80	16	Georgetown (McDonough)	District of Columbia	Private	42,360	63,000	1.49
81	74	Marquette	Wisconsin	Private	32,810	48,000	1.46
81	63	Bryant	Rhode Island	Private	35,591	52,000	1.46
81	47	Butler	Indiana	Private	32,280	47,000	1.46
84	28	Texas Christian (Neeley)	Texas	Private	36,500	53,000	1.45
85	97	Belmont	Tennessee	Private	24,900	35,500	1.43
86	7	Emory (Goizueta)	Georgia	Private	42,400	60,000	1.42
87	4	Washington U. - St. Louis (Olin)	Missouri	Private	44,100	62,000	1.41
88	104	Loyola - Chicago (Quinlan)	Illinois	Private	33,810	47,500	1.40
88	30	Southern Methodist (Cox)	Texas	Private	37,050	52,000	1.40
88	40	Fordham (Gabelli)	New York	Private	41,000	57,500	1.40
88	25	Northeastern (D'Amore-McKim)	Massachusetts	Private	39,320	55,000	1.40
92	61	Quinnipiac	Connecticut	Private	38,000	53,000	1.39
92	6	Boston College (Carroll)	Massachusetts	Private	43,140	60,000	1.39
92	67	Seattle (Albers)	Washington	Private	34,200	47,500	1.39
95	72	Syracuse (Whitman)	New York	Private	37,610	51,500	1.37
95	102	Xavier (Williams)	Ohio	Private	32,140	44,000	1.37
97	35	Lehigh	Pennsylvania	Private	41,920	57,000	1.36
98	1	Notre Dame (Mendoza)	Indiana	Private	42,464	57,000	1.34
99	18	Wake Forest	North Carolina	Private	42,700	57,000	1.33
99	56	American (Kogod)	District of Columbia	Private	37,554	50,000	1.33
99	49	Tulane (Freeman)	Louisiana	Private	41,500	55,000	1.33
102	91	St. Louis (Cook)	Missouri	Private	34,740	46,000	1.32
103	20	Bentley	Massachusetts	Private	38,130	50,000	1.31
104	15	Villanova	Pennsylvania	Private	42,150	55,000	1.30
104	115	Hofstra (Zarb)	New York	Private	34,900	45,500	1.30
106	38	Santa Clara (Leavey)	California	Private	40,572	52,500	1.29
106	79	John Carroll (Boler)	Ohio	Private	32,130	41,500	1.29
108	17	Richmond (Robins)	Virginia	Private	44,210	56,764	1.28
108	93	Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders)	New York	Private	32,784	41,917	1.28
108	83	Fairfield (Dolan)	Connecticut	Private	41,090	52,522	1.28
111	46	San Diego	California	Private	39,486	50,000	1.27
112	92	St. Joseph's (Haub)	Pennsylvania	Private	37,670	47,300	1.26
113	70	U. of Miami	Florida	Private	39,980	50,000	1.25
114	31	USC (Marshall)	California	Private	43,722	54,000	1.24
115	62	Ohio Northern University (Dicke)	Ohio	Private	35,678	44,000	1.23
115	23	Boston U.	Massachusetts	Private	42,400	52,000	1.23
117	80	St. Thomas (Opus)	Minnesota	Private	33,040	39,644	1.20
118	36	Babson	Massachusetts	Private	41,888	50,000	1.19
119	69	Case Western (Weatherhead)	Ohio	Private	40,120	47,500	1.18
119	68	Denver (Daniels)	Colorado	Private	38,232	45,000	1.18
121	65	Loyola Marymount	California	Private	38,012	44,000	1.16
122	53	Loyola - Maryland (Sellinger)	Maryland	Private	41,026	47,000	1.15
123	109	Providence College	Rhode Island	Private	41,350	47,000	1.14
124	71	George Washington	District of Columbia	Private	45,735	50,000	1.09

Note: For public schools, in-state tuition is used. School type, salary, and tuition data was submitted to Bloomberg Businessweek by the schools.

Interactive table by Brian Ward for Bloomberg Businessweek