College "That pay off the Least" while "Costs going up"

The study compares earnings to total tuition/fees for students who received federal aid. If they received federal aid, they didn’t pay anywhere close to full tuition - this doesn’t make sense.

No wonder so much of the list is private schools - higher list price hurts their ranking, but the bigger scholarships they give to offset list price aren’t taken into account. The authors of this “study” would flunk statistics at any of the schools.