Posted on 11/21/2019 6:56:46 PM PST by karpov
For the first time, the U.S. Education Department has published data allowing students to compare salary and debt levels for specific college programs rather than for entire institutions only.
The information was made public Wednesday on the agency’s updated College Scorecard website, which was created under the Obama administration to help students evaluate which colleges provide the best value. The update is seen as a milestone in the department’s efforts to shine a light on programs that leave students with heavy debt and low incomes.
Previously, students could use the online tool to compare salary and debt averages for entire schools, benchmarks that the Education Department now says are “fairly meaningless.” Students today can sort through specific majors within a school and see how they stack up against one another, or against programs at other schools, and see which ones lead to the highest salaries or the lowest debt.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said the new tool provides “real information students need to make informed, personalized decisions about their education.” By providing the same statistics for all institutions, she said, students can compare any programs they are considering “without regard to the type of school.”
The website allows students to search for a specific school or to browse by field of study or degree type. It offers information on schools from Ivy League universities to vocational schools and certificate programs.
There are some drawbacks.
The earnings data are available for only 20% of the 200,000 programs listed in the department’s database, while others are hidden for privacy reasons because they had few students. The earnings figures were measured a year after graduation and reflect students who received federal loans or Pell grants only. They do not count students with no earnings.
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Support your local Commie. Go to college.
Valuable information
GOOD! now either stop tax payer funded student loans all together or base funding on College majors which can reasonably be expected to generate wages to replace said loans. Let the Universities and private funding take care of the worthless dead weight degrees.
“There were also more than 100 programs in which the median debt was more than four times greater than the median salary, including some film, drama and visual arts programs at prestigious schools such as Columbia University and New York University.”
See this? This is my shocked face.
It pays to be a dentist! Haven’t we always suspected this? A little bit of a racket, dentistry.
Students can also use the Department of Labor website to get earnings information for various professions, along with the expected growth of jobs in those fields. There is a lot of information out there for people who look for it.
This must be racist or sexist or something.
It pays to be a dentist!
You’ll be a Dentist!
(Be a dentist)
You have a talent for causing things pain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOtMizMQ6oM
It's called "return on investment".
Very unfriendly website to navigate through.
What I want to know is what kind of jobs are available and what they are paying for a graduate in Non-Binary Gender Studies who has $100,000 in student loan debt.
Not actually very useful. I looked up Harvard gender and other studies. The annual salary for a grad (98% graduation rate!) was $37-129, 000. The average annual cost at Harvard was listed as $14,000.
I’m not quite sure what the world would look like without philosophers, economists, teachers, lawyers, historians, archeologists, psychologists, artists, authors, and social workers. But apparently that’s the world you want if you think every degree outside of STEM is worthless.
I'm a bit perturbed by that attitude myself. Having said that, a person is, in my opinion, obliged to pay his debts. When choosing a field of study, one has to be circumspect about its financing.
We simply need to get the government out of providing student loans and grants for college.
I would say let's try it. These professions do not need degrees at all, philosophers, historians, artists, authors, and social workers. Self directed study should teach them what they need to know.
These people we could used a great deal less of, economists, lawyers, archaeologists and psychologists. There is currently a glut on the market and they are mostly fools.
There should be no such thing as a teaching degree.
History is important as in fake news really is a crime. That being said, people dealing with the topic are way too irresponsible and stupid. Usually people good in stem are also more honest in other topics like History, and Stem should be, imo, a prereq to a topic like this so the idiots and frauds be kept out the most.
My brother went to a really good college and paid for working part-time in a grocery store. The problem began with deep pockets government.
How about a Gender Studies major?
Ordinary dentists serve a useful purpose. Cosmetic dentists,OTOH,are just con artists who take advantage of peoples’ insecurities.I see than to be the equivalent of surgeons who do b00b jobs.
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