Colleges That Pay You Back contains seven rankings lists, all of which focus on different aspects of financial aid and career preparation.
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Top 50 Colleges That Pay You Back
These fifty schools received our highest ROI rating, ranked in order.
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Top 25 Colleges That Pay You Back for Students With No Demonstrated Need
To create this list, we used the same methodology for our ROI rating, but removed need-based aid information. If you don’t qualify for financial aid, these are your twenty-five best value schools.
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Top 25 Best Alumni Networks
Based on students’ ratings of alumni activity and visibility on campus.
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Top 25 Best Schools for Internships
Based on students’ ratings of accessibility of internship placement at their school.
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Top 25 Best Career Placement
This top 25 list is based on students’ ratings of career services at their school, as well as on PayScale.com’s median starting and mid-career salary information for alumni.
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Top 25 Best Schools for Financial Aid
These 25 schools received our highest Financial Aid rating.
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Top 25 Best Schools for Making an Impact
These 25 schools were selected based on student ratings and responses to survey questions covering community service opportunities at their school, student government, sustainability efforts, and on-campus student engagement. We also took into account PayScale.com’s percentage of alumni from each school that reported having high job meaning.
Click to read more about our Colleges That Pay You Back methodology. For 62 lists covering topics on academics, facilities, and campus culture, check out Best 382 Colleges.