"New data tells what a Virginia college degree is worth"

[Anonymous]

"...a groundbreaking database Virginia published Thursday that pinpoints for the first time how much graduates from specific college programs, public and private, earn when they enter the job market. That’s a matter of intense interest to many parents and lawmakers in an era of rising student debt and college bills that can total tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars." -- Very interesting!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/new-data-tells-what-a-virginia-college-degree-is-worth/2012/10/04/007f0b42-0e28-11e2-bd1a-b868e65d57eb_story.html?hpid=z3

[Anonymous]

good idea!

[Anonymous]

What you make when you enter the job market and where you end up are entirely different things. Remember that loads of CEO's have liberal arts degrees. Slow and steady can win the race.

[Freeman]

Anonymous wrote:What you make when you enter the job market and where you end up are entirely different things. Remember that loads of CEO's have liberal arts degrees. Slow and steady can win the race.

Many CEOs don't have college degrees at all, and I doubt any of them started with a degree in "CEO Management". However, you can't really derive anything useful from statistical outliers such as Gates or Zuckerberg, as well as most CEOs, in terms of college decisions. I think many people would find it useful though, if comparing two degrees, to see that for one degree and school, graduates had 90% employment with an average starting salary of $50k, while another degree and school had only a 70% employment rate and average starting salary of $30k. The point is to ensure that students have realistic expectations on what to expect after they graduate, not what they can expect 20 years down the road.