A new report from PayScale, a research firm, calculates the returns
to a college degree. Its authors compare the career earnings of
graduates with the present-day cost of a degree at their alma maters,
net of financial aid. College is usually worth it, but not always, it
transpires. And what you study matters far more than where you study it.
Engineers and computer scientists do best, earning an impressive
20-year annualised return of 12% on their college fees (the S&P 500
yielded just 7.8%). Engineering graduates from run-of-the-mill colleges
do only slightly worse than those from highly selective ones. Business
and economics degrees also pay well, delivering a solid 8.7% average
return. Courses in the arts or the humanities offer vast spiritual
rewards, of course, but less impressive material ones. Some yield
negative returns. An arts degree from the Maryland Institute College of
Art had a hefty 20-year net negative return of $92,000, for example.
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