Sentences with phrase «higher than the college»

A 2015 report by Washington - based Economic Policy Institute found in some states annual childcare costs were higher than college tuition.

Illinois sparks controversy by setting its bar for proficiency higher than the college - readiness score on the SAT.

Mike Petrilli notes that college completion rates are not likely to be much higher than college readiness rates.

These NYSED scores, totaling 1630, are far higher than the College Board's own college readiness benchmark score of 1550.

Otis College achieved a 45 % participation rate which was almost 11 points higher than other art and design colleges and 20 points higher than all colleges nationally.

Help factor, college students from middle - income families score significantly higher than the college students from low - income families.

Not exact matches

The annual cost of incarceration for a single juvenile is over $ 100,000 — more than twice as high as tuition at the most expensive college in the country, according to the American Correctional Association and the Chronicle of Higher Education.

According to a study of 367 college students conducted by biologist Christoph Randler, early risers perform better on the job, attain greater career success, and reap higher wages than people who start their day later.

Whether they dropped out or stuck it out, going to college more than paid off for today's top tech startup billionaires — higher ed skeptic and Stanford alum Peter Thiel included.

Google is hiring more teenagers than college graduates, and even a 12 - year - old who is just beginning high school.

Eighty - six percent of employed millennial college graduates are more likely than those with a high school diploma or less to say they have found a «career.»

Last month, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology won a competition among more than 1,000 college students who presented design concepts for how the Hyperloop might transport pods of people from city to city at high speeds.

The zone now covers over 100 blocks and serves more than 12,000 children, with 95 % of high school seniors going off to college.

Policy makers favor the manufacturing sector because it has historically provided good paying jobs for middle - skill workers, or those folks who have more than a high school education but not a four - year college degree.

This Christian college in Missouri has a lower acceptance rate than Cornell, the Ivy with the highest acceptance rate, and requires students to show financial need for admission.

That's why PayScale surveyed 2.3 million graduates of more than 2,400 colleges and universities to report their pay, major, highest degree earned, and associate's or bachelor's school name where appropriate.

A high school or college student is going to leave sooner than later, regardless of whether she's earning $ 7.25 or $ 10.10 per hour.

CIBC also found that real weekly wages of high school and college graduates have risen by 13 per cent versus eight per cent among undergraduate degree holders and more than double the rate seen among MA and PhD holders.

These days, as more teenage boys ponder forgoing college for high - tech jobs or starting their own companies, his young male audience seems larger than ever.

To a student fresh out of college, San Francisco's median rent rate of $ 3,200 per month (three times higher than the national average!)

There are plenty of people out there who have pretty positive self - assessments: Ninety percent of drivers think they have above average skills behind the wheel, an even higher percentage of college professors think they're better than average teachers, and, as we all know, every single child in Lake Wobegon is above average.

In the same way that students who attend top universities may be predisposed to getting higher paying jobs than those who didn't go to college at all, one could argue that the really great entrepreneurs don't need any help from an incubator.

Notably, families in the Northeast spend about 70 % more on college than those in the West, Midwest, and South, which might explain why the average debt per graduate is higher in that part of the country.

Millenials» unique media habits show up in other ways: Nowadays, for example, high schoolers do their initial research into potential colleges and universities on the Internet rather than during an actual trip to a campus; and young media users rely on YouTube videos to learn everything from magic tricks and hair and makeup tips, to cooking secrets.

The average wages for a white college graduate is significantly higher ($ 31.83 per hour) than the average wage for a black college graduate ($ 25.77).

As parents, you think the best thing you can do for your children is to encourage them to go to college and get a good education — and, hopefully, that will help them land good jobs with higher earning power than if they had high school diplomas alone.

American entrepreneurship rates reach their highest levels in more than a decade according to researchers at Babson College and Baruch College.

Public and private colleges and universities expanded their payrolls by 28 percent between 2000 and 2012, more than 50 percent faster than the previous decade, according to an analysis of higher education staffing by the Delta Cost Project.

After surveying 400 college and high school students and 400 parents, more than half of the people were in favor of using an ISA over a private student loan to pay for their degrees.

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College graduates with debt have higher incomes than those without, but after accounting for higher taxes and student debt payments, their disposable income is ~ $ 1,100 lower.

Florida's High Tech Corridor spans 23 counties across the state, connected by three research universities, more than 20 local and regional economic development organizations, 14 community and state colleges, 12 regional workforce boards, countless industry groups and the thousands of innovative companies that call this region home.

The Pennsylvania legislature recently passed a bill that will ensure borrowers are up - to - date on their student loan debt.The average Pennsylvania college student graduates with $ 35,000 in student loans, which is higher than any other state in the U.S. And within three years of graduation, 10 percent of Pennsylvania student loan borrowers default on their debt.In order to combat this problem, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives recently passed a bill that would ensure students stay informed about how much debt they are accumulating.HB 2124 would require all colleges and universities to provide annual notices to students about their outstanding student...

Our data indicates that overall, millennial renters with a college degree have significantly higher incomes - roughly $ 22,600 more each year than those without a college degree.

Apple, as part of its response, on Tuesday announced improvements in its iWork suite at an event in Chicago, where school bells and announcements over a public address system directed press and more than 300 teachers into an auditorium at Lane Tech College Prep High School.

The properly measured economic return to community college has to take into account the counterfactual outcomes that entrants would face in the absence of community college, rather than compare community college entrants to students who enter university programs after high school.

Judge and co-author John D. Kammeyer - Mueller of the Warrington College of Business looked at data collected as part of a multi-decade study that followed more than 1,500 California children who had scored high on intelligence tests.

Their results show that community college completion rates in Canada are significantly higher than in the U.S..

Still, the income - tax break on any earnings used to pay legitimate college expenses, coupled with the ability to avoid borrowing costs for tuition later, could make even lower returns in a 529 plan equivalent to higher returns outside of one — and better than not saving at all.

Fogel adds that for Millennials, a career in sales comes with the stereotype that it's not actually much of a career — «anyone can do it or you're born to it,» Fogel says, implying that this generation — which collectively has more college degrees than any other generation — doesn't believe sales positions are worthy of their four - year higher education.

The cost of room and board at some colleges is higher than that of mortgage payments, especially considering today's low mortgage rates.

It has a much lower invested capital, and thus, a higher ROIC, than the other for - profit colleges.

Oddly enough, the rate of women reporting more than 100 partners declines from 4 percent among the high school graduates to one percent among college graduates but increases to 8 percent among postgraduate women.

You will have noted, for example, that the study of God (rather than religion) is not an occupation high on the list of priorities set forth in the development plans of most of our colleges and universities.

I would love to see you go get a college degree (in something other than theology) so that you can get a high (er) paying job.

Further, older students are more than twice as likely as younger students to have attended a vocational or technical high school or a two - year or community college, and much less likely to have attended a private, nonreligious grade and high school.

Mintz does not refer at all to research by developmental psychologists such as Jay Belsky of London's Birkbeck College and Alan Sroufe of the University of Minnesota; nor does he cite the huge, multicenter National Institute of Child Health studies, all of which suggest that more than 20 hours per week of child care beginning before the age of one correlates with a higher incidence of interpersonal difficulties by early grade school.

I think that a college religion course better prepares a person for a high score on this test than being a communicant of any religion, if the diversity of the questions are similar to the ten question quiz.

In recent years, most of the more than two hundred colleges and universities in America have turned their attention to strengthening their «Catholic identity,» but relatively few come near to approximating the vision of Catholic higher education proposed by John Paul and Benedict.

Moreover, college - educated adults are now more likely to get married and to enjoy high quality marriages than less - educated Americans.