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Thursday, November 14, 2019

What's it worth to you?

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A research unit at Georgetown has calculated various student graduate economic rates-of-return measures for a large sample of universities. It computes the net present value (NPV) of a student "investment" in a bachelors degree, as above for UC campuses. Note: These kinds of calculations require large grains of salt. For example, there will likely be large variations across occupations/majors from a given university. But if you are curious, the report is at:

https://1gyhoq479ufd3yna29x7ubjn-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/College_ROI.pdf
and
https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/collegeroi/

A summary also appears in Inside Higher Ed:
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/11/14/differences-college-roi-vary-institution-type-and-time-frame-measured-report-says

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