Sentences with phrase «earnings than a graduate»

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There's no longer any question that an education which equips a new graduate with the tools and technologies that it takes to join today's tech - and - data - centric workforce is far more likely to lead to solid earnings and long - term employment in our digital global economy than an expensive, traditional 4 - year program.

In a salary analysis that looked at the earnings of more than 14,000 graduate business school alumni, GMAC found that female alumni experience a significant wage gap throughout their careers.

«The fair solution is to abolish tuition fees and ensure that graduate contributions are based on actual earnings in the real world, rather than sticker prices in prospectuses, which are based on guesswork.»

Using differential interest rates rising with earnings as a means of providing for a more progressive system is less fair than a graduate tax, a graduate contribution or general taxation because those from wealthy backgrounds will have smaller debts as their families can afford to pay up front.

Using differential interest rates rising with earnings is less progressive and less fair than a graduate tax, a graduate contribution or general taxation because those from wealthy backgrounds will have smaller debts if their families can afford to pay up front or soon after graduation.

A # 21,000 repayment threshold would mean that «30 per cent of graduates would pay less from their lifetime earnings than they do now,» Mr Cable said.

Those in the bottom quintile of ability who go on to major in STEM have lifetime earnings of about $ 2.3 million, compared to $ 2 million for high school graduates in the top quintile of ability; business majors do slightly worse than STEM majors.

Without correction, the simulation showed that STEM majors could expect an even larger lifetime earnings premium: $ 2.2 million more than high school graduates with no college attendance, instead of $ 1.5 million.

The median earnings for graduates is, on average, # 9,500 higher than non-graduates.

And why imply that when Li and Scott - Clayton cite research showing that the earnings boost from a graduate degree is larger for blacks than whites, a finding they say can't be broken out by the type of school attended?

We agree with Podgursky that NACE salary data are higher than the average earnings of new college graduates, many of whom work part time, attend graduate school, or are underemployed.

According to data revealed at a Columbia University Teachers College symposium on «The Social Costs of Inadequate Education,» dropouts die 9.2 years earlier than students who graduate high school and annually cost $ 4.5 billion in lost income taxes and earnings.

They were more likely to finish high school, attend and graduate from a four - year college, and have higher earnings than their peers going to schools that didn't face accountability pressure.

The difference in earnings between college graduates and nongraduates has risen in recent decades, and research indicates that attending selective colleges yields a larger economic return than attending less - selective institutions.

If this program increases a student's likelihood of attending college, elevates the quality of college attended, and reduces the time it takes to graduate from college, the costs of the program on a per - student basis would be far less than the average increase in lifetime earnings.

In America today, a child raised in a family with earnings in the bottom quartile nationally is six times less likely to graduate from college than is a child whose family earns in the top quartile.

By 2000, most states had earnings ratios near 100 percent for all aptitude groups, indicating that graduates of the most highly selective colleges earned no more as teachers than did graduates from bottom - tier schools!

With teachers earning about 30 % less than other college graduates, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development «Table D3.2 a. Teachers» actual salaries relative to earnings of tertiary - educated workers» in OCED.

Only about 46 percent of children aged three through six in families below the federal poverty line are enrolled in center - based early childhood programming, compared to 72 percent of children in families above the federal poverty line.1 Poor children are about 25 percent less likely to be ready for school at age five than children who are not poor.2 Once in school, these children lag behind their better - off peers in reading and math, are less likely to be enrolled in college preparatory coursework, less likely to graduate, and over 10 percent more likely to require remediation if they attend a four - year post-secondary institution.3 All of these issues compound one another to create a cycle of low opportunity: children in poverty are less likely to achieve high educational attainment, and low educational attainment leads to lower median weekly earnings and higher rates of unemployment.

This is significantly higher than $ 30,400, the annual earnings of a high school graduate.

Most students are not borrowing more than they can afford to pay back, they argue, but students need to take their likely future earnings, as well as their probability of graduating, into account when taking out a student loan.

Rather than looking just at total (or per - capita) student loan debt balances by state, Credit Sesame calculated debt - to - earnings ratios (debt as a percentage of earnings) for college graduates.

Discussion: While we agree that gross earnings and earnings gains as a result of obtaining additional credentials will increase for program graduates over the course of their lives, and gains for some occupations may be more delayed than others, we do not believe that this merits increasing the D / E rates thresholds for the purpose of program accountability.

The commenter suggested that using the actual average of the cohort would allow for programs that provide training for occupations that require experience before earnings growth and motivate institutions to work with graduates who would be better off in an income - driven repayment plan than defaulting on their loans.

The better educated the unwed father, the higher his earnings and the more rapidly his earnings grow; high school graduates earn 25 to 33 percent more than dropouts.3 In the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study sample of men who became fathers in the late 1990s, more than one - third of unwed fathers had not completed high school.