Location: Cazenovia, New York
This school in New York serves an undergraduate population of nearly 1,000 students, many of whom will see a lackluster ROI.
Cazenovia costs $46,000 per year to attend, which translates to massive amounts of debt.
New England Institute of Art
Location: Brookline, Massachusetts
This for-profit arts college in Massachusetts was so awful that it’s been shut down for good. If you check out some of the old reviews on Yelp, you’ll see its measly 2-star rating – lower than any other school on this list thus far. For some reason, the school had an extremely low acceptance rate at just 31% in 2010, which doesn’t make a whole lot of sense for a for-profit school to do.
Nevertheless, it was closed in 2017. The Art Institute corporation as a whole seems to be a pretty shady operation – which is probably why they were sued for $11 billion for fraud by the US Department of Justice.
Dixie State University
Location: St. George, Utah
Dixie State has made headlines for its restriction of free speech on numerous occasions. Two tenured professors were fired most recently for discussing another’s bid and tried to offer them ridiculous contracts to keep them quiet if they stayed on.
The school has also been in hot water with FIRE’s lawyers for censoring student flyers and banning its sororities and fraternities from using the Greek alphabet.
St. Andrews University
Location: Laurinburg, North Carolina
St. Andrews could be worse, but they’ve also got some issues they need to address, which is mainly their cost of tuition versus the number of debt graduates are left with.
That’s what happens when you spend more than $41,000 per year to earn a degree.
Earlham College
Location: Richmond, Indiana
Earlham College is definitely not cheap to attend. In fact, it costs over $46,000 per year for the privilege of learning within the walls of this Midwestern school.
Except when you compare the cost with the median 10-year earnings of just $35,000, it seems like it’s best to keep searching.