Best Value / By Major

Best Value Colleges for Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research

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

1
Schools Ranked
$27,854
Avg. Earnings
N/A
Best Payback
108
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
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ · Public
$31,133 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.