{"id":42064,"date":"2011-04-14T15:05:52","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T19:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=42064"},"modified":"2016-02-04T16:04:17","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T21:04:17","slug":"bates-roi-businessweek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/04\/14\/bates-roi-businessweek\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates a top school for ROI, says Bloomberg Businessweek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In their second annual joint study of the return on investment for a college education, <em>Bloomberg Businessweek<\/em> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.payscale.com\/\">PayScale<\/a> report that Bates is in the top 12 percent in the U.S. &#8212; 81st out of 693 colleges and universities &#8212; and best among Maine colleges.<\/p>\n<p>In simplest terms, the report compares the cost of a college education (adjusted this year for financial aid) to subsequent earnings by its alumni.<\/p>\n<p>For Bates, which offers an average financial aid package of $30,503 to 41 percent of students, the 30-year net return on investment is $810,100, which increases to $890,200 for graduates only.<a href=\"http:\/\/images.businessweek.com\/slideshows\/20110405\/best-colleges-for-return-on-investment\/slides\/21\"> View the data about Bates from the 2011 <em>Bloomberg Businessweek<\/em> PayScale report.<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1px;height: 1px;overflow: hidden\">http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/bschools\/content\/mar2011\/bs20110325_342238.htm?chan=bschools_special+report+&#8211;+college+return+on+investment_special+report+&#8211;+college+return+on+investment<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg Businessweek and PayScale say Bates is best in Maine and in top 12 percent of U.S. colleges and universities for return on investment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[220,11009],"tags":[10835,10872],"class_list":["post-42064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-service","category-the-college","tag-bates-career-development-center","tag-financial-aid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79763,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42064\/revisions\/79763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}