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Education degrees are broadly considered some of the easiest degrees and have large numbers of them matriculating: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/c
by 9x39 2mo ago
Education degrees are broadly considered some of the easiest degrees and have large numbers of them matriculating:
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/ctb/graduate-degree-fields https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/ctb/graduate-degr...
They're signals with low leverage since everyone has to have them in their field, so you end up with lower nominal pay from the institutions that buy most of that labor.
Consider acceptance rate as a metric - education has one of the highest by this report, up there with public service:
https://cgsnet.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/CGS_GED-2025_Report_Final.pdf https://cgsnet.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/CGS_GED-2025_R...
- leetrout 2mo agomaybe they are easy but "everyone has to have them" doesn't change the amount of time and money invested in getting them. The real compensation under that is stagnating with inflation. NC is particularly bad because state law forbids collective bargaining and they are at the whim of the legislature (which stalled a budget for 1000 days). The signal of supply and demand the cost (and debt) of an advanced degree is not reflected in the marginal salary bump over bachelors degree given the rising costs of tuition. From same site you used 46.7% of public university masters degree completions used debt so basically half. https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d23/tables/dt23_332.45.asp https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d23/tables/dt23_332.45.a...