It Depends What You Study, Not Where
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It Depends What You Study, Not Where
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#2As if future income is the only "return on investment" in an education... smh
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#3As if future income is the only "return on investment" in an education... smh
It should serve as a proxy for a number of things: connections you've made, skills learned, career paths taken.
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#4For most people I agree. However, as someone who has graduated from a top school (U. of Michigan), I can't tell you how many times my credentials have got me both interviews and jobs. Where you go to school CAN make a big difference, but it depends on the school, the person, and the field of study.
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#5I don't know this survey. But I've read similar and recently published surveys on the subject. Notably, if you stratified the sample to remove computer science students the conclusion is reversed.
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#6What is this "it" which depends? Is the curious language in this headline trying to say: "it matters what you study, not where?"
Ironically, where did this author learn grammar?
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#7Isn't this a recent dupe?
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#8What is this "it" which depends? Is the curious language in this headline trying to say: "it matters what you study, not where?" Ironically, where did this author learn grammar?
Does it matter - he landed a gig in the Economist and proved his thesis?
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#9Previous discussion:
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#10It says "return on degree", so is the income measured relatively to what they spent on the degree? If so, it obviously depends still very much on where you study, as top schools cost much more.