The college degree choices all have a fixed price. Whether you are male or female you will pay the same amount to attend college. This question is not about the upfront cost of college rather the hidden cost once both sexes have started work as graduates. The gender pay gap is still going strong and the big question is: Why?
[Read more…]Can faculty salaries really be justified?
As I did my research on faculty salaries, I was filled with astonishment and outrage. I became certain that this was a slam dunk straight NO! No these faculty salary figures could never be justified – not when so many students are laden with tens of thousands of debt.
[Read more…]Where is the money after college?
Money. It is never something we really give much thought to when we are young, ambitious and adventurous. We decide our major based on what we love doing and what we are good at – have a knack for. But, what if our romanticised view of our career path takes a severe battering, when it comes to money, just based on that single choice? What we study at college has the potential to reduce or increase our projected income by more than 300%.
[Read more…]Tuition Cost? We are all blogging from the same page!
Tuition cost is on a lot of people’s minds. I have been browsing the web to find out what others are suggesting and reasoning when it comes to rising tuition cost, and here is what I found:
[Read more…]Colleges sell sell sell
Colleges sell. How good are they at it? Well, Forbes calculated the exact student population and cost of America’s top 100 colleges. Since they spell out exactly how much the colleges cost and what their student population was as of July 2013, from here we can calculate how much money each college receives.
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