Only 2.8% of students go to schools with admissions rates below one-third

<p>But since you asked, mini - at at least one school in 2007, the average salary of a graduate with a BS in a technical field was roughly a third higher than that of a two-year nursing graduate. </p>

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<p>Of course, that was pre-recession, and may well be different now.</p>