This visualization is based on median return on investment estimates for undergraduate degree programs from my CollegeNPV ROI rankings project. If interested, you can view my ROI estimates for thousands of universities and degree programs here: [CollegeNPV College Rankings](https://www.collegenpv.com/)
**Data source:** CollegeNPV ROI estimates, which leverage Department of Education data to estimate the present value of degree programs taking into account graduation rates, expected income, debt obligations and contrasting it with the expected value of entering the workforce immediately out of high school.
**Tools:** R & Excel
AS degree on Computer Engineering. Been in the tech field for almost 10 years right after college and now making 150k a year working from home 30 hours a week. IT Engineering Manager for fortune 500.
I been offered 200k before, but decided not to take it because I love my work life balance.
Damn. Sociology students like me get ass. And art students fail even harder!!!
Real estate is the top of ‘business’. My god…
Mine was in cell biology, but clearly I should’ve gone with bioinformatics haha
(I’m still doing okay for myself though)
Adding lines for each row would make this much more readable.
Everyone just needs to remember nobody actually knows what the return on investment will be if you’re getting the degree today. This is based on salaries today, but who knows what will pay well 30 years from now and what will no longer even be a career.
I’m a high school teacher, so no. My degrees (because I was required to get a Master’s) were not and never will be worth the investment.
Who knew that Biomathematics, Bioinformatics and computational Biology gave such a substantial ROI?
Everyone knows there’s no money in philosophy or anthropology or whatever. But the only way for you to have a career doing that is with a degree in it. And that’s also true for Masters and PhDs. There are career paths you gain only from attaining these degrees.
You’re going to be doing this job for a long time, so you may as well try and choose something you enjoy and value…
All high school students should take a good look at this table before following their heart, hoping that the money will follow, and financially crippling themselves in the process.
I find these rankings enormously entertaining because I have an English lit bachelors, an English lit Masters, and a rhetoric and composition PhD., And through the most ridiculous chance, I’ve wound up as a very prominent AI scientist.
Totally get that my outcome is a complete outlier, but I still LOL. 😂
this is all a super interseting perusal and im looking for the degree path i dropped out of among like generic biology and then HOLY SHIT $1.327 million what the fuck why did i leave college
![Is your college degree worth the investment? [OC]](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/08shc30vn50e1-895x1024.png)
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This visualization is based on median return on investment estimates for undergraduate degree programs from my CollegeNPV ROI rankings project. If interested, you can view my ROI estimates for thousands of universities and degree programs here: [CollegeNPV College Rankings](https://www.collegenpv.com/)
**Data source:** CollegeNPV ROI estimates, which leverage Department of Education data to estimate the present value of degree programs taking into account graduation rates, expected income, debt obligations and contrasting it with the expected value of entering the workforce immediately out of high school.
**Tools:** R & Excel
AS degree on Computer Engineering. Been in the tech field for almost 10 years right after college and now making 150k a year working from home 30 hours a week. IT Engineering Manager for fortune 500.
I been offered 200k before, but decided not to take it because I love my work life balance.
Damn. Sociology students like me get ass. And art students fail even harder!!!
Real estate is the top of ‘business’. My god…
Mine was in cell biology, but clearly I should’ve gone with bioinformatics haha
(I’m still doing okay for myself though)
Adding lines for each row would make this much more readable.
Everyone just needs to remember nobody actually knows what the return on investment will be if you’re getting the degree today. This is based on salaries today, but who knows what will pay well 30 years from now and what will no longer even be a career.
I’m a high school teacher, so no. My degrees (because I was required to get a Master’s) were not and never will be worth the investment.
Who knew that Biomathematics, Bioinformatics and computational Biology gave such a substantial ROI?
Everyone knows there’s no money in philosophy or anthropology or whatever. But the only way for you to have a career doing that is with a degree in it. And that’s also true for Masters and PhDs. There are career paths you gain only from attaining these degrees.
You’re going to be doing this job for a long time, so you may as well try and choose something you enjoy and value…
All high school students should take a good look at this table before following their heart, hoping that the money will follow, and financially crippling themselves in the process.
I find these rankings enormously entertaining because I have an English lit bachelors, an English lit Masters, and a rhetoric and composition PhD., And through the most ridiculous chance, I’ve wound up as a very prominent AI scientist.
Totally get that my outcome is a complete outlier, but I still LOL. 😂
this is all a super interseting perusal and im looking for the degree path i dropped out of among like generic biology and then HOLY SHIT $1.327 million what the fuck why did i leave college
[No.My](http://No.My) degree is a waste of money.
It’s wild that reputable academic institutions still offer degrees in theology.
Now this is interesting. Thanks for posting
BS chemical engineering – yes!
Ha, both of my degrees come out negative. Mind you, the cost for my degrees was far less than it is now.
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