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据彭博社周五报道，美国八所常青藤大学的投资回报高于其他许多非盈利的四年制大学。该机构的一项分析显示，这些精英大学的毕业生10年的投资回报率通常为26.55万美元。这是63所被称为“隐藏的常青藤”顶级私立大学的两倍，几乎是彭博社研究中所包含的所有其他大学平均数的三倍。
为了获得这些数字，彭博社使用了来自乔治敦大学教育和劳动力中心的数据。值得注意的是，它不包括那些支付全额学费上学的学生。相反，这些数据包括了那些从大学获得一些经济资助的学生。据彭博社报道，对这个群体来说，常春藤大学毕业校友的平均年薪为9.05万美元，而所谓“隐藏常春藤”大学毕业生的年薪为7.26万美元。此外，扣除学校资助后的常春藤大学毕业生所付的学费也比隐藏的常春藤大学毕业生低18%。
普林斯顿大学校园
那么，哪所常春藤大学最划算呢？
普林斯顿大学的投资回报（入校10年后收入的净现值减去金融援助后学费的平均价格）排名第一。这所设在新泽西州的大学的投资回报率是令人印象深刻的34万美元。接下来是宾夕法尼亚大学的28万美元和哈佛大学的27.5万美元。
紧随前三名之后的是投资回报率为26.7万美元的耶鲁大学和26.4万美元的哥伦比亚大学。康奈尔大学、达特茅斯大学和布朗大学的回报率略低一些：分别为19万美元，18.3万美元和17.2万美元。
风景如画的哈佛大学
值得注意的是，普林斯顿大学的年净学费价格最低，只有9836美元，这是榜单上唯一的四位数数字学费。其次是哈佛大学的13,872美元，而其他多数常春藤大学的学费在2万至4万美元之间。如果你追求毕业生的最高平均收入，那将是宾夕法尼亚大学的103,246美元，这是唯一一所本科毕业生平均年薪六位数的学校。普林斯顿大学以95,698美元的年薪排名第二，而其他常春藤大学毕业生的年薪在8万美元和9万美元之间。
这些数据无疑将给那些认为常春藤盟校能帮助学生取得成功的人一些提振。考虑到这些数字，他们肯定会在金融领域做得很好。
Ivy League Universities Do Offer a Better Return on Your Investment: Report. By Tori Latham on Robb Report's Newsletter, April 12, 2024.
The eight Ivies have a better return on investment than many other nonprofit four-year colleges, Bloomberg reported on Friday. The elite institutions have a typical 10-year ROI of $265,500, an analysis by the outlet shows. That’s twice the return of 63 “Hidden Ivies”—other top private colleges—and almost three times the median of all other schools included in Bloomberg’s research.
To get these numbers, Bloomberg used data from Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce. Notably, it doesn’t include students who paid full price to attend school. Rather, the data encompass those who got some financial aid from their university. For that group, the average Ivy alum earns $90,500 a year, according to Bloomberg, while those who went to a Hidden Ivy earn $72,600 a year. Plus, Ivy grads paid 18 percent less than Hidden Ivy grads.
So, which Ivy gets you the most bang for your buck? Princeton tops the list when it comes to return on investment (which is measured here as the net present value of earnings 10 years after enrollment minus the average price paid after financial aid). At the New Jersey school, ROI comes in at an impressive $340,000. Moving down the list, you have the University of Pennsylvania with a $280,000 ROI and Harvard with a $275,000 ROI.
耶鲁大学
Closely following those top three schools are Yale with a $267,000 ROI and Columbia with $264,000. Cornell, Dartmouth, and Brown round out the list with slightly lower totals: $190,000 for Cornell, $183,000 for Dartmouth, and $172,000 for Brown.
Notably, Princeton also features the lowest net price per year, at just $9,836—the only four-figure amount on the list. The next lowest is Harvard at $13,872, while most other institutions sit between $20,000 to $40,000. And if it’s highest median earnings you’re after, look to Penn: At $103,246, it’s the only school with a six-figure salary. Princeton comes in second with $95,698 a year, while grads from the other Ivies earn salaries in the $80,000s and $90,000s.
The data give a little boost to those who believe that an Ivy League education sets students up for success. Given these numbers, they certainly seem like they’ll do well in the financial realm.