On August 27, Brooklyn College was included in a Forbes article, “The 25 Colleges With the Highest Payoff.” To calculate students’ return on investment, Forbes “looked at each school’s price-to-earnings premium, a calculation by the think tank Third Way that shows the number of years it takes graduates to recoup the net cost of their education. [It] also factored in the schools’ debt-to-percent-borrowed index, a figure that Forbes created for the top 500 colleges list that takes into account how many students take on debt to attend the schools, and how much debt those graduates leave with.” Forbes said of Brooklyn College: “Only 7% of students take out federal loans to attend CUNY Brooklyn College, and their median loan total sits at $9,218. Once graduated, Brooklyn College students make up the net cost of their education in just over half a year, according to Third Way data. The school accepts 55% of applicants, and popular majors include psychology, accounting, and business administration and management.”
