Location: Jacksonville, Florida
This private college in Jacksonville is another whose reputation among alumni isn’t too positive. If you search for reviews, you’ll find a lot of three-star ratings, mainly about how disorganized everything seems to be. And that may contribute to the low graduation rate, which is less than 20%, and the pitiful median salary of graduates after six years – less than $30,000.
Couple that with the average student debt of nearly $23,000, and you can see why Edward Waters has earned its spot on this list.
Sunstate Academy
Location: Clearwater, Florida Sunstate Academy is a private beauty college that charges more than most grads can even expect to earn.
Students pay over $20,500 per year and the median starting salary is just $17,700.
Maine College of Art
Location: Portland, Maine This school has a much smaller student body than the others on this list, with just around 500 in attendance last year. The ROI is shoddy at best, in fact, it’s just shoddy.
Those who choose to attend shell out $46,000 per year and don’t typically wind up making enough to clear their debt.
Occidental College
Location: Los Angeles, California This school has a pretty large student body, comparatively speaking, with more than 2,000 undergraduate students in attendance last year alone.
But the payoff at Occidental hardly seems worth the payments. The college costs nearly $55,000 per year to attend, but the median salary ten years after entry is just over $50,000.
Strayer University
Location: Feasterville-Trevose, Pennsylvania
Strayer University, located in Bensalem Township, doesn’t exactly have the best reputation among schools in New England, much less the country. Of course, it isn’t one of the worst of the worst, but it’s definitely somewhere in the middle. Strayer has a graduation rate of just 22%, which is slightly above what it was over the past couple of years.
They do, however, have a median salary of over $45,000, which is much higher than some other schools on this list. It may not be great compared to what’s possible, but it definitely beats $24,000!