Columbia International University – Columbia, South Carolina

Woah there, Columbia International University (no relation to that fancy Ivy League one!), hold your horses before galloping towards a $133K “investment.” Sure, the South Carolina campus might be charming and small, but the sticker shock is real. PayScale has the receipts, and the return on investment (ROI) score is tear-inducing -$115.7K. Yikes!

While the 620 undergrads might mean cozy professorial hand-holding, that bank account might feel the squeeze without the post-grad career boom you deserve. So, unless your family happens to own a gold mine, choose wisely, future grads! There has to be a path to success that doesn’t involve taking wallets hostage.

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