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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Based on earlier comments, it sounds like people want to base academic rankings on job placement and salary statistics. Those two don’t necessarily correlate. If you’re comparing an Ivy classics major to a State U CS major, the comparison makes no sense from an academic perspective, but the CS major will have a higher salary. What’s the point of the ROI focus? To make the arts look bad? Don’t people already know which majors pay? ROI is a dumb way to rate academic excellence. [/quote]

College degree is useless waste of money if you serve at a restaurant or make coffee at Starbucks afterwards.
It's not everything but most important factor

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But you don't rank colleges on it, you might rank majors within colleges on it.  So compare outcomes (e.g., salary at different time periods, grad school placement, student satisfaction) within majors.  A college shouldn't be dinged because it has a strong history department that attracts history majors who may take longer to see an ROI compared to a college that has a crappy history department with no majors but a lot of sort of okay CS students. A tech school with a larger proportion of engineering majors will have higher first year salaries, but it's not like you can turn any kid into an engineering major--they have to want that and have that particular skill set and thus they go to a tech school. Doesn't make the school better than a LAC.  Compare the bio majors at the tech school with the bio majors at the LAC.[/quote]

There are rankings which have outcome as one of the criterion. [/quote]

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