interesting article about college payoff

Colleges and Universities A-Z Georgia Institute of Technology
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<p>What's</a> Your College Degree Worth?: Best Undergraduate ROI: Georgia - BusinessWeek</p>

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<p>that’s sweet!</p>

<p>and what building is that in the picture?</p>

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<p>so i sent that article to my friend because he’s going to another school that’s on that list and he told me that the picture they put for tech is actually a picture of the mcdonough school of business at georgetown university. oops :(</p>

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<p>hah. He’s right. I was trying to figure out if that was the new nanotech buildings.</p>

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<p>never seen it at GT haha. anyways, it looks too nice and expensive to be a GT building :)</p>

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<p>I wonder what’s the difference between “net return on investment” and “net return for graduate”?</p>

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<p>The graduation rate.

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The Pay Off:
Graduation Rate: 77 percent
30-Year Net Return on Investment: $1,111,000
30-Year Net Return for Graduates: $1,443,000
Annualized Net ROI: 14.2 percent

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<p>The Return on Investment = Return for Graduates * Graduation Rate = $1,443,000 * .77</p>

<p>That’s a poor measure, though. It assumes that attending Tech for 2 years and leaving means you’d earn the same as a high school graduate with no college. That’s not true at all.</p>

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<p>yeah it is a pretty poor measurement. </p>

<p>hm…on a different note, i wonder if the tuition is going to increase for the 2011-2012 year as it did this year (increase of 4k).</p>

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<p>Obviously no one knows for sure, but I don’t think it will be that bad. This year was an exceptional year with very low tax revenue for the state. Next year shouldn’t require nearly as many cuts, if any at all compared to this year.</p>