At this point in time, I would be concerned about hiring someone who paid that kind of money for college. It suggests either growing up with a silver spoon, or having poor judgment. Sadly.
Dang, my alma mater is now the most expensive school in the country!
Mudd isn’t what it used to be. I guess that’s a new way to be #1, :-(
Most of that money goes to woke administrators which is a very bad thing.
When did USC move to Illinois?
Mudd was $10,700 when I enrolled there, but I got off cheap sleeping in my car for half of the first year.
If I had to do my career over again, I would be a tradesman. Something w/low material costs and high returns like a landscaper or electrician. They are some of the wealthiest people I know.
Its just like everything in life.
Real Estate: “Location, location, location”
College: “Where you go, what you study, GPA”
Retirement: “Wise investments, save your pennies”
Business: “Keep costs down, hire good people, pay attention”
I got into real estate late but did very well.
College did very well in engineering.
Did very well in retirement planning but could have done better.
Doing ok with small business. Lots to learn.
“Harvey Mudd College”
I don’t think I’d own up to that degree.
looking at the list, depending on the major, Duke and Georgetown might provide a positive return on investment. The rest I would term ‘highly unlikely’.
But who actually pays full price at most of those?
Nobody pays that much. Practically every student gets grants (mostly from socialist organizations and/or the gummint, which is the same thing) or substantial scholarships.
It’s a money laundering scheme. Big businesses get YUGE tax deductions by making to donations to liberal universities so they can produce another crop of brainwashed socialists.
In the cases of a lot of these schools graduating gains you access to a valuable alumni network.
Of course if you are a dolt at one of the best schools, you are still a dolt.
It’s best to have a plan beyond your school years.
Vassar? My God. It used to be the college for people with more money than sense. Now it really is. Spend a fortune at Vassar to get a useless degree and it still doesn’t matter because you have a multi-million dollar trust fund to live off of when you get out. The last respectable Vassar graduate was Ms. Hathaway.
I’ll listen to any cogent arguement as to why any of these schools are any better than the majority of state universities. I don’t expect to get one beyond the following
Connections and contacts.
When I lived in North Carolina I saw a bumper sticker that said “Dook is expensive, Carolina is priceless”.
https://www.ivyscholars.com/harvards-most-and-least-popular-majors/
Check out the second most popular on the above list.
Government.
Deep State U.
NONE of them are worth it. NONE.
You will need to be able to read, write and do math though.
People will pay it
Every oligarch in China and India, for example, wants to send their kids to these schools and get the “certificate.”
Money is no object.
Even at our local state university, which obviously doesn’t have as high entry requirements, these foreign kids have a tuition rate that is double the out-of-state rate.
University of Chicago, Ill. — $103,821
University of Southern California, Ill. — $103,162
Isn’t that a contradiction? University of Southern California, I grant, is very likely a “failure” at graduating useful, productive graduates, but “in Illinois”? Seems like neither state school (California and Illinois) “should be” in this list of private over-priced elite schools.