What’s a college degree worth? (The State)
A four-year college degree, seen for generations as a ticket to a
better life, is no longer enough to guarantee a steadily rising paycheck.
Just ask Bea Dewing. After she earned a bachelor’s degree in computer
science from Maryland’s Frostburg State University in 1986, she enjoyed
almost unbroken advances in wages, eventually earning $89,000 a year as a
data modeler for Sprint Corp. Then, in ...
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The Declining Value Of Your College Degree (WallStreet Journal via
Yahoo! Finance)
A four-year college degree, seen for generations as a ticket to a
better life, is no longer enough to guarantee a steadily rising paycheck.
What employers want from workers nowadays is more abstract and less easily
learned in college.
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The declining value of your college degree (The Arizona
Republic)
A four-year degree is no longer enough to guarantee a steadily rising
paycheck.
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Career Tips for Generation Y College Grads (Carteret County
News-Times)
(ARA) - With employers facing a looming shortage of skilled
professionals, your recent college degree can lead to more opportunities
than you might imagine. Increasingly motivated employers may, however,
leave you with an overwhelming array of choices.
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Opinions differ on value of bachelor's degree (KTAR 92.3
Phoenix)
A ``Wall Street Journal" report said the value of a college degree is
declining -- that the typical college graduate's wage is no longer rising
above inflation and that the typical weekly grad's salary, adjusted for
inflation, is well below the 2001 level.
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