Best Value / By Major

Best Value Colleges for Educational Administration and Supervision

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

4
Schools Ranked
$31,020
Avg. Earnings
30.5 yrs
Best Payback
2,446
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
Cleveland State University
Cleveland, OH · Public
$37,424 30.5 yrs
2
University of Delaware
Newark, DE · Public
$36,141 60.5 yrs
3
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI · Public
$35,274 257 yrs
4
Ohio State University-Main Campus
Columbus, OH · Public
$29,845 N/A

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.