Best Value / By Major

Best Value Colleges for Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education

Schools ranked by payback period — how quickly you recoup your investment through higher earnings.

3
Schools Ranked
$44,204
Avg. Earnings
1.8 yrs
Best Payback
52
Graduates

How we calculate value: Payback = (4 years of net price) / (major earnings - $35k baseline). A 2-year payback means you recoup your investment in 2 years through higher earnings vs. not attending college.

# School Major Earnings Payback
1
Texas A & M International University
Laredo, TX · Public
$44,356 1.8 yrs
2
CUNY City College
New York, NY · Public
$41,937 4.3 yrs
3
Texas Wesleyan University
Fort Worth, TX · Private
$46,321 7.6 yrs

Payback uses earnings by major from the College Scorecard's field-of-study file, last updated June 2026, against net price from the June 2026 release. Scorecard publishes the two separately, so they are different vintages.