Is college worth it?
News articles raising that question, and reports meant to answer it, are piling up at a steady clip.
And the answer has real consequences for anyone advising a student about whether and where to go to college, and for policy makers wondering if the country has too many degree holders, or too few.
A paper released on Monday by the Urban Institute seeks to add context to the debate over whether college pays off. The paper, "Higher Education Earnings Premium: Value, Variation, and Trends," was written by Sandy Baum, a senior fellow at the research organization.
Read more at The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/blogs/bottomline/embargoed-till-10am-monday-evaluating-the-payoff-of-a-college-degree/