&gt; <i>He cites a survey, carried out by PayScale for Businessweek in 2012, that showed that students who attend M.I.T., Caltech, and Harvey Mudd College enjoy an annual return of more than ten per cent on their “investment.” But the survey also found almost two hundred colleges where students, on average, never fully recouped the costs of their education.</i><p>I&#x27;ve never been a fan of the U.S. News <i>et al</i> college ranking methodologies. Publishing historical–as well as forecasted–ROIs would be a far superior metric.