Capitalizing on the tense economic climate, SmartMoney unveiled its“Best Colleges for Making Money” ranking (slideshow here) yesterday, compiling tuition costs and salaries to find the schools that offer the largest payback, and trying to convince us to transfer to the University of Georgia.

The magazine’s ranking calculated the “average payback” ratio of colleges across America by comparing the median salary of graduates to the cost of a degree, effectively seeing how the investment in higher education paid off.

Princeton University came in first out of the Ivy League schools with an “average payback” of 132%…