What is your ROI for your college/university?

ROI = base salary / yearly cost of attendance

Super curious because mine is like 100/8 = 12.25 (went to state school)

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That… is not even how it should be estimated

Assume a total discounted lifetime earning potential for if you DIDNT go to college as a baseline, and then a total discounted lifetime earning if you did go

I’m assuming I’d have an average of 100k if I didn’t go to college over a 40 year career so 4M in lifetime earnings

If I work in finance I’m assuming 500k but for 20 years which is 10M

The delta is 6M divided by 300k = ~20x ROI

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