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Public Schools: Return on Investment

To determine which business programs give students the biggest return on their tuition dollar, we compared annual tuition costs at each of the programs that participated in our recent undergraduate b-school ranking with median starting salaries for graduates. Overall, public universities with their lower tuition did far better than elite private schools, averaging $5.34 in pay for every tuition dollar spent, compared to $1.46 for the privates. The University of Central Florida, which ranked dead last in our undergraduate ranking, topped the list of publics on ROI. North Carolina, at No. 14 overall and No. 5 on ROI, had the best of both worlds. Below is our ROI ranking for 63 public schools.

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Public School Average 8,764 46,839 5.34

Note: Annual tuition and fees are for in-state students. Cornell is listed in a separate private school ROI table because the university is private, even though the business program is in a state-assisted portion of the school.

Data: Bloomberg BusinessWeek