Do Elite Colleges Equal Elite Salaries for Graduates?

Payscale is an Internet site that collects salary data from 1.2 million college graduates based on their highest median mid-career salary (at least 10 years after graduation), highest median starting salary (5 years or less after graduation), and professions. This data is based only on graduates with a bachelor’s degree and begs the question, Does [...]

Does Your College Degree Have Value?

In today’s economy, it’s thought to be more important than ever to get a college degree to stay competitive in the work world. But just because you obtain a college degree, do you have the necessary critical thinking skills to succeed and add value in the workplace? Many employers would say no!
The National Association of [...]

College-bound Students Taking AP Courses at All-Time High

For many high school students, AP stands for Added Pressure. As if the stress of weighted GPA’s, class rank, SAT’s, SAT II’s, and six-hour-per-night homework overloads aren’t enough, the educational establishment has decreed as unwritten doctrine that any serious college-bound student must enroll in as many AP courses as possible. So they do – in [...]

How to Know Which College Major is Best for You

Our college database tracks the percentage of each college’s graduates who get jobs. Which of the following colleges do you think has the best track record for its graduates landing a full-time job within six months of graduating college? Which has the worst?

St. Joseph’s University
Stevens Tech
Boston College
Rutgers

St. Joseph’s and Stevens Tech are tied at the [...]

The Recession Hits College Freshman

The Cooperative Institutional Research Program Freshman Survey is the largest and longest-running survey of American college students. It includes the responses of 219,864 first-time, full time students at approximately 297 national baccalaureate colleges and universities. Many of the findings this year are directly related to the nationwide recession.
More than half of the 219,864 students responded [...]

Salaries Continue to Rise for College Brass

This is disheartening — especially for many middle-class families trying to afford college. While courses are being cancelled and teachers are being laid off, college administrators are not only keeping their jobs but actually receiving pay raises!
According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, the median pay for college presidents rose to $436,111 in 2008-2009—a 2.3% [...]

College Enrollment Numbers Continue to Rise

If your family is busy taking college tours you’ll notice that each college has its own individual personality and atmosphere. But one thing they all share is crowded campuses! College enrollment numbers continue to rise, which begs two questions: what’s responsible for this rise and how high will it go before it
levels off?
Looking at enrollments [...]

We’re Going Hollywood — Check Out New Library Article About College Movies

Quick, how many movies about college or take place at college can you name? You have one minute. You must put down your pencil at the end of 60 seconds. No cheating. OK, go…
How did you do?
Here was my list:
Rudy
         The Way We Were
         Chariots of Fire (I think some of it took place in college)
         Animal House
         Back [...]

Best Value Colleges Lists for 2010 — Kiplinger vs. The Princeton Review

It’s that time of year when “best value” college lists surface. But with different lists circulating around, how do they differ, and which is the best one? Let’s take a peak at two of the more popular lists to see how they are created and how they can work for you…
First up is the Kiplinger [...]

Mental Illness Has Risen 500% in College-Age Youth since The Great Depression!

Today’s fast-paced life filled with time-saving smart technology and “you can do anything” larger-than-life expectations may actually have an opposite effect on today’s college-bound students by creating anxiety and stress. This coupled with society’s constant obsession with celebrities, their lifestyles, looks and possessions has students concerned more with the quantity in life instead of the [...]