College Grad Earnings – Data Reveals Significant Variations

An interesting piece –

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/14/upshot/gaps-in-alumni-earnings-stand-out-in-release-of-college-data.html

A potential solution:

Differential pricing – liberal arts degrees should cost a lot less than technical degrees

Related piece from Vox:

http://www.vox.com/2015/9/12/9314695/college-scorecard-earnings

The article notes:

“Nobody expects every college to make graduates rich. Almost always, the colleges with the highest earning graduates focus on specific fields, such as medicine or engineering. The gender wage gap means that colleges enrolling more women nearly always end up looking worse than colleges with a lot of men. And colleges whose students go into less lucrative work, including teaching and public service, worry that judging colleges based solely on their graduates' median income will overlook their other benefits to society.

But it's not unreasonable to expect students who pursued additional education after high school to earn more than students who did not. Aside from beauty schools, there are more than 400 colleges where, 10 years after they first enrolled, most students still weren't earning $25,000 per year. Most are two-year colleges, many of them for-profit.”