“Consider this: The average recent college graduate earns $42,000 a year and is buried under more than $25,000 in debt, while the average entry-level police officer in a city bureau earns $49,500 a year with little to no upfront cost. And those in the high-tech manufacturing field easily make $50,000 annually to start, in some cases with free training from a vocational program in high school.”
How to start your career without a college degree.
Read more in the Kiplinger Letter.
Read more in the Kiplinger Letter.
This is great news considering that a high school graduate earns 40% less than someone with a bachelor’s degree and is more than twice as likely to be unemployed.
But as we noted last year, not all college majors are created equal.
A Hong Kong couple paid an "admissions consultant" $2.2 million to get their kids into Harvard.
… it didn’t exactly work out.
From the magazine: 7 pitfalls to avoid when paying for college
And FYI, the November issue hits newsstands today!
“We never use it as a single indicator and we don’t search blindly, but if we have other suspicions, we will look.”
Martha Blevins Allman, dean of admissions at Wake Forest University. You’ve heard of employers checking Facebook profiles — now college admissions offices do it, too.
College may be getting more expensive, but the rate of return has stayed the same. (And that’s a good thing!) Read more on college value in this new Hamilton Project report.
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