ROI

Additional details on a proposal to make colleges accountable for overcharging for low-value degrees.

Taxpayers subsidize thousands of postsecondary programs with negative returns on investment for students. It’s time to change that.

Look up the financial value of tens of thousands of associate degrees.

Returning readers will recognize much of the methodology from FREOPP’s previous work but because there are differences in the nature of these credentials, as well as the associated data sources, there are some differences in methodology.

Nursing and mechanic programs yield healthy returns, whereas liberal arts programs do not.

We compared what graduate degrees earn vs. what workers would have earned had they not gone to grad school.

Look up the financial value of tens of thousands of graduate degrees.

The net financial value of most graduate degrees is modest to negative.