Colleges That Pay Off

Which colleges pay off? PayScale crunched the numbers to compute the best returns on investment—by comparing the cost of a degree against what its students earn upon graduation—and Huffington Post rounds up the best of the bunch:

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: annual ROI: 12.6%; 30-year ROI: $1.69 million
2. California Institute of Technology: 12.6%; $1.64 million
3. Harvard: 12.5%; $1.63 million
4. Harvey Mudd College: 12.5%; $1.63 million
5. Dartmouth: 12.4%; $1.59 million

6. Stanford: 12.3%; $1.57 million
7. Princeton: 12.3%; $1.52 million
8. Yale: 11.9%; $1.39 million
9. Notre Dame: 12.2%; $1.38 million
10. University of Pennsylvania: 11.8%; $1.36 million

See the Huffington Post slideshow here and PayScale's complete rankings here.