What's your college worth?

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<p>Here's some good CC discussion fodder:
What's</a> Your College Degree Worth? - BusinessWeek</p>

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<p>If you do the math on the number one school, MIT, it implies that the average per-year income is $59,867 for those with graduate degrees. For my undergrad school, BC, it comes out to $32,757 per year. For BU (my grad school), it comes out to $29,283. If we go to the bottom of the list, we see Shaw University where the average annual income is $286.</p>

<p>Seems that someone should charge the authors with abuse of database.</p>

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<p>Okay, I see that they reduced the return rate by a graduation rate multiplier. I guess a low graduation rate could kill the expected return. The problem with that, of course, is that it sets the income of those that did not graduate to zero.</p>

<p>The sample was about 1,000 salary reports per school. That sounds inadequate.</p>

<p>There was another article involving the payscale database which was also criticized by lumping all of the majors together.</p>