Sunday, February 14, 2016

You don’t need an Ivy League degree to make a lot of money in these fields - Jillian Berman, Market Watch

Graduates of top-tier schools who major in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) don’t earn much more than graduates of schools that are easier to get into, according to research from Michael Hilmer, an economist at San Diego State University, and Eric Eide and Mark Showalter, economists at Brigham Young University. But for students who major in business or liberal arts, where you go to school matters -- business majors from top schools make 12% more than those from midtier schools and 18% more than their colleagues from bottom tier schools, for example. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/you-dont-need-an-ivy-league-degree-to-make-a-lot-of-money-in-these-fields-2016-02-02