College Scorecard: How Much Will You Earn?
…former Philadelphia College of Pharmacy), and so on. Other Planet Money lists focus on colleges that emphasize upward mobility and colleges that leave students with “little debt and good financial…
…former Philadelphia College of Pharmacy), and so on. Other Planet Money lists focus on colleges that emphasize upward mobility and colleges that leave students with “little debt and good financial…
…attend college would likely focus their studies on subjects with an immediate return on investment. Lower tuition costs, perhaps dramatically lower at some institutions, would still enable impoverished students eligible…
…colleges and college ratings. And now people hear about the free-college proposal and they say oh, that is free college and what does that have to do with regulation? Well…
…number and in the volume of students. Now that it is becoming evident that a college degree isn’t necessarily a good investment and for many is a terrible waste of…
…A college education is now deemed one of those prizes that, if good for a few, must therefore be good for all, even if no one in a position of…
The conventional meritocratic recipe for success is simple enough: study hard in school, get good grades, be involved in one’s community, find an appropriate college, apply for jobs in your…
Completing a college education, people have long presumed, shows that a young adult has not just mastered a particular subject but has broadened his or her intellect by exposure to…
It’s mistake to conclude that “where you go to college is of almost no importance.” Even if they don’t offer the royal road to intellectual or professional success, elite colleges…
…Longitudinal Data in Education Research, in their report “America’s College Drop-Out Epidemic: Understanding the College Drop-Out Population,” estimates that “about a third of four-year college drop-outs would have had a…
When the White House released the outlines of its long awaited college ratings plan on Friday, the world of higher education was underwhelmed. Colleges are “a little mystified,” Sarah Flanagan…
…good investment, to rumors that it might not necessarily be, to hard data showing how unlikely it is that a graduate from a law school will find a law-related job…
…college boards of trustees across the country to prune their institutional portfolios of investments in fossil fuel companies. So far, few colleges and universities have signed on. Harvard has…
…would be upset. Better student data will help disabuse people of the higher education establishment’s well-cultivated notion that college degrees are necessarily a good investment. Many non-NAICU college and universities…
…financial assistance program has enabled colleges to raise fees: “these hiked tuition rates….form a free subsidy for colleges…which use the funds to finance a myriad of non-academic pursuits.” Rubio proposes…
…go to college is economic–and, at any rate, that’s the main way college is sold, as an “investment”–then there are a lot of people graduating from college now for whom…
On the evening of 19 September, about two weeks before the scheduled appearance of Hillary Rodham Clinton as a “Great Names” speaker at Hamilton College, members of the Hamilton College…
…it?” gets wrongly conflated with “should everybody go to college?” Matthews writes: So does college raise incomes? Is it an investment good enough to make widely accessible? Yes, it is….
…millions more were spent by trade associations representing groups of schools. The Association of American Medical Colleges, for example, spent $2,210,000, and the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities…
…humanities. This is one of the report’s immediate goals, phrased of course in the financial imperative, “Increase investment in research and discovery.” The report as a whole is presented as…
…Grants for remedial coursework. “A huge proportion of this $40 billion annual federal investment,” Petrilli writes, “is flowing to people who simply aren’t prepared to do college-level work. And this…
…The Erosion of the Labor Market for College Graduates The view that college graduation provides a near-guaranteed ticket to a prosperous middle-class life style conflicts with the reality of today’s…
…suggest a better investment–establish an undergraduate college heavy on the humanities and social sciences (including economics) that recruits only top students. (David Koch took a step in this academic direction…
Originally run as a Manhattan Institute Policy Brief. The growth of student-loan debt has raised a vexing question: Is a college degree still a good investment? No segment of American…
…and benefits of college. But the current trends of student loan defaults and recent graduate underemployment show us that everyone has been underinformed about a college investment. The media spotlight…
…barista or a bellhop. Let’s stop telling those young people that going to college is a very good investment. For many, it’s not an investment at all, but merely an…
…the benefits of employment, income, wealth and a greater public good. But to participate in that greater public good, individuals must be well schooled. Reminding us of such fundamentals is…
…a college education might well justify the investment of time and resources. Professor Harris’s pessimistic assessment of college education as an investment was almost unanimously pooh-poohed at the time, although…
…singles out public investment in higher education as the problem, why leave it at that? Human capital investment is human capital investment, regardless of when it occurs. Why not attack…
…good example. Lots of college students think they need to devote time and energy to “saving the planet,” which requires stopping the use of fossil fuels. They insist that college…
The impulse to impose Sarbanes-Oxley on universities is tempting. Indeed, formal legal mandates on conflicts of interest and the other attributes of good governance might be even more appropriate for…