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It would be helpful (though very difficult) if we could isolate the branding/signaling value of certain colleges from the education/training value of colleges,
by hkmurakami 10y ago
It would be helpful (though very difficult) if we could isolate the branding/signaling value of certain colleges from the education/training value of colleges, to ascertain the nature of the return on investment value that is being derived from colleges or varying statures, locations, etc.
"What we are buying" through 4 years of college seems to be getting less and less clear to me, and the administrators are very much involved in keeping things as difficult to measure as possible.
- jmcphers 10y agoThe Department of Education has stats on the average salary after graduation at many institutions (realize this is only a weak proxy for the signals you want, but is at least correlated). You can play with, and download, their data here: https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/ https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/
- leesalminen 10y agoJust looked up the school I dropped out of. I made >2x in my first year of dropping out than what it says is average salary for new graduates. Suckers.
- 0xffff2 10y agoConsider that perhaps you do not represent the average student at that school.