What's a College Degree Worth?
Interactive graphic of median earnings by college major and subject area.
Full article here from The Chronicle of Higher Education on the earnings of 171 college majors.
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Professor Mark J. Perry's Blog for Economics and Finance
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Full article here from The Chronicle of Higher Education on the earnings of 171 college majors.
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- Name: Mark J. Perry
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Dr. Mark J. Perry is a professor of economics and finance in the School of Management at the Flint campus of the University of Michigan. Perry holds two graduate degrees in economics (M.A. and Ph.D.) from George Mason University near Washington, D.C. In addition, he holds an MBA degree in finance from the Curtis L. Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. In addition to a faculty appointment at the University of Michigan-Flint, Perry is also a visiting scholar at The American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.
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WaPo story via link from Instapundit: On path to riches, no sign of fluffy majors (check out accompanying graphic)
An old joke in academia gets at the precarious economics of majoring in the humanities.
The scientist asks, “Why does it work?”
The engineer asks, “How does it work?”
The English major asks, “Would you like fries with that?”
But exactly what an English major makes in a lifetime has never been clear, and some defenders of the humanities have said that their students are endowed with “critical thinking” and other skills that could enable them to catch up to other students in earnings.
Turns out, on average, they were wrong.
The best colleges for petroleum engineers. Big bucks ahead, for college life in College Station, Texas and Aggie as your nickname.
What about my Ph.d. in Women's Studies?
"What about my Ph.d. in Women's Studies?"...
Come back and start bragging about that Phd the next time you start ovulating...
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