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[quote=Anonymous]So what is the right metric for measuring the quality of an education? Are there quantifiable ways to actually compare the quality of the output? If it is not salary,?is it graduation rates?! Is it percent of students who are employed in their major or in grad school a year out from graduating with the B.A. or B.S.? How do you account for students who decide not pursue a careering their major field of study?

It took me one year to break into a job in my major field of study twenty years ago and I would say tea was largely because I didn't understand how to look for a job. In between I supported myself working retail and waiting tables. I worked in that job for four years, and then went to grad school. I was very fortunate when I came out of grad school that I had the right combination of skills and experience and was in the right place at the right time to land the job that kick started the career I am in now. It has been an amazing journey and I would but do much differently.  Among leaders in my field in international affairs I am known and recognized for my expertise and have been consulted by, among others, the NSC, the State Department, the Treasury Department and numerous private sector entities, including non-profits and foundations, business associations and major multi-national corporations. I built thus career through my own hard work, willingness to take risks (for example taking decamping to Siberia after grad school), focusing on experience first and salary second, and building my own network of connections in industry and government. No one today ever asks or cares where I went to school. You got an Ivy degree and it has worked for you. I didn't, but I'm extremely satisfied with my career and the choices that I've made and even gave surprised myself that I do what I do now. So, if the measure of quality of an education is as you state in your first sentence above, I am among the best educated people I know. However, much of that education came through experiences outside the classroom, through people I met who believed in and encouraged me and through my own hard work and perseverance. My degree, in the end, has had very little to do with it.
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