Archive for October, 2006

Value of a College Degree

According to new data released by the U.S. Census Bureau, college graduates with a bachelor’s degree earned an average of $51,554 in 2004. These numbers hold true for men and women in every racial and ethnic group. Graduate School: Adults with advanced college degrees earned an average of $78,093. Check out the salary facts of [ READ MORE ]

Average Price of College Tuition in 2006

According to the College Board’s recently released 2006 reports on college pricing and financial aid, tuition increases at 4-year public colleges have slowed for the third year in a row, but prices are still up 35 percent from 5 years ago, after adjusting for inflation. 2006-07 Average Tution and Fee Charges by College Type 4-year [ READ MORE ]

College Admissions–Looking Good Only On Paper

There’s an article in the NY Times about the increasing numbers of small liberal arts colleges dropping the SAT from their admissions requirements: Students’ Paths To Small Colleges Can Bypass SAT. Call it what you will (I like to call it WASP Guilt), but it’s moving me to confess: in high school I was an [ READ MORE ]

RN Fast Track for Vocational Nurses

Licensed nurses with LPN (Licensed Practical Nurse) degrees can now earn a bachelor’s degree (BSN) with one extra year of school. The academic degree program sounds like a rap lyric: LPN-to-BSN. Okay, maybe not. If it was LPN to the BSN… Anyway, it’s good news that vocational nurses are getting the chance to move up [ READ MORE ]

I Need Some Sleep!

Seriously, I’m so sleep-deprived right now, I just laughed so hard I cried after typing the title to this. I’m so exhausted I can’t sleep—I have to swim laps in order to reach some point-of-no-return degree of tired so my legs will stop twitching and I can get some z’s. If you know of what [ READ MORE ]

Elite College Grads + Their Future Earnings

Estimating the Payoff to Attending A More Selective College If you’re middle class, it won’t make a difference whether or not you attend a state university or Princeton income-wise. In 2002, the Quarterly Journal of Economics from MIT Press found that a middle class kid who graduates from an elite college doesn’t make any more [ READ MORE ]

2006 World University Rankings

The Times Higher Education Supplement has published the 2006 world university rankings. American and British universities made up nearly half of the top 100 universities. The rankings were compiled by asking 3,703 academics worldwide to name the 30 best universities for research in their field of expertise, and also considering responses from 736 graduate employers [ READ MORE ]

Challenges Facing Moms Restarting Careers

Examining the Trend of College-Educated Women Leaving the Workforce I love research done by people who’ve heard a general, society-wide rumor and just have to know whether or not it’s based in fact. Sylvia Ann Hewlett (author of the 2002 book, Creating a Life: Professional Women and the Quest for Children) recently researched just how [ READ MORE ]