Reuters – Mitch Lipka
“As high school seniors across the United States fill out college applications, many will run a cost-benefit analysis of the cost of a school against the lifetime earnings potential of a degree from there. But that is not the only equation to consider. Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW) regularly calculates the value of college degrees – which schools and areas of study offer the best potential return in the form of career earnings. The center recently released “Ranking Your College: Where You Go and What You Make,” which listed schools by the average of what a graduate could make a decade after receiving a degree. Reuters asked CEW Director Anthony Carnevale to explain how future earnings potential should affect a student’s college choice.”(more)