<p>What's</a> Your College Degree Worth? - Businessweek</p>
<p>Make sure to chck out the interactive table of College Bargains</p>
<p>The distribution of majors at each school probably has a lot to do with the overall school rankings in this respect.</p>
<p>Yep, good example…North Carolina State Uni vs. UNC Chapel Hill. NCSU is ranked higher than UNC. NCSU has the School of Engineering, UNC does not. At the top of the list are the Tech schools, so it makes sense that the school producing engineers would rank higher for ROI.</p>
<p>Kat
P’ton sends alot of students including their engineers into i-banking, pe fund mange, hedge funds…</p>
<p>I was more interested in the stats provided in the College Costs and Financial Aid table. They list the total cost for a degree as well as the net cost when FA is factored in. Also, instead of the usual graduation rates (4-year and 6-year grad rates) they provide the 4-year grad rate for those who DO graduate. </p>
<p>In other words, for those who do graduate, what % do it in 4 years. I have never seen that stat before. This appears to remove the drop-outs and transfers from the equation, and demonstrate the graduation rate for those who remain at that college.</p>
<p>Undoubtedly true about Engineering skewing results, but I have to wonder how they used the Payscale data. Engineers have higher entry wages but don’t hold up as the highest salaried. How did they get to a 30 year ROI?</p>
<p>^ NOt sure if this answers it (still need to read the article), but I wonder how many engineers go on to get MBAs and into management and consulting? In my experience, at least 1/3 of my MBA classes would be former engineers.</p>