Home News Which college degrees earn grads more than $1 million? Maybe not ones from Swarthmore, Penn State. – The Philadelphia Inquirer

Which college degrees earn grads more than $1 million? Maybe not ones from Swarthmore, Penn State. – The Philadelphia Inquirer

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La Salle University wasted no time jumping on higher education’s hottest new metric: earnings after graduation.

Around Philadelphia, La Salle’s billboards plaster local highways, advertising that its grads rank in the top 4% for 10-year mid-career earnings.

”We beat out research-intensive universities [and] elite Ivy League liberal arts schools,” LaSalle president Colleen Hanycz said last week. “And we did that without a school of engineering, medicine or law” boosting income after graduation.

La Salle’s marketing of ROI — or return on investment, based on a new Georgetown University study — illustrates a growing question: How much is an expensive college worth in future earnings as students and parents go deeply into hock? Do Ivy League degrees pay off more in the long run? Or can a one- or two-year program in health care rocket your college grad into a higher earnings bracket?

The result is surprising: Georgetown’s analysis found, for example, that a degree from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken is more valuable on average over a 40-year career than the Ivy League’s Princeton University, $1.8 million compared with $1.6 million.

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