| Author(s): | Klor de Alva, J., and Schneider, M. |
| Title: | Who wins? Who pays? The economic returns and costs of a Bachelor's degree |
| Source: | http://www.air.org/files/WhoWins_bookmarked_050... |
| Date: | 2011 |
| Organization: | American Institutes for Research (AIR) |
| Short Description: | Using publicly available data, this study looks at who wins and who pays across the full spectrum of higher education institutions in the United States, combining information on “institutional control” (public, private not-for-profit, or private for-profit college or university) and selectivity (ranging from open admission to most
selective, based on Barron’s Profiles of American Colleges). |
| Annotation: | Given the importance of a college education to entering
and staying in the middle class and the high cost of
obtaining a bachelor’s degree, Who Wins? and Who Pays?
are questions being asked today at kitchen tables and
in the halls of government throughout the nation. This
study shows that the answers are different than what
is commonly found in the media. Much of the current debate about the cost and value of higher education has focused on how much students pay, how much they borrow, and how poorly some of
them are being educated. Much less attention is being
paid to how well or how badly taxpayers are being served both by the institutions they are helping to fund and by the students they have helped to graduate. Using publicly available data, this study looks at who wins and who pays across the full spectrum of higher education institutions in the United States, combining information on “institutional control” (public, private not-for-profit, or private for-profit college or university) and selectivity (ranging from open admission to most
selective, based on Barron’s Profiles of American Colleges). |
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