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Best Value Colleges for Teaching English or French as a Second or Foreign Language

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

9

Schools Ranked

$27,322

Avg. Earnings

14 yrs

Best Payback

121

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	Net Price/yr	Major Earnings	Payback
1	University of Northern Iowa Cedar Falls, IA · Public	$15,287	$39,369	14 yrs
2	Liberty University Lynchburg, VA · Private	$27,305	$37,208	49.5 yrs
3	Miami University-Oxford Oxford, OH · Public	$23,513	$33,993	N/A
4	Kent State University at Kent Kent, OH · Public	$19,508	$19,455	N/A
5	University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras San Juan, PR · Public	$10,614	$15,922	N/A
6	Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico-Arecibo Arecibo, PR · Private	$13,519	$27,439	N/A
7	Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico-Ponce Ponce, PR · Private	$13,013	$27,439	N/A
8	Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez Mayaguez, PR · Private	$12,017	$27,439	N/A
9	Inter American University of Puerto Rico-Arecibo Arecibo, PR · Private	$9,867	$21,508	N/A

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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.