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Thinking About The ROI For That College Degree at State U.?

22 hours ago ago from Student Lending Analytics Blog

I probably should have seen this earlier, but the Payscale College Salary Report provides data on salary ranges by major at leading universities. For example, here are the top 10 state universities based on salary potential with mid-career being defined as 15 years out: Top State Universities Starting Median Salary Mid-Career Median Salary University of California, Berkeley $57,100 $112,000 ...

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Why N.C. State doesn’t deserve this

16 hours ago ago from The Raleigh 10 - Top Ten Lists of the Best Restaurants, Businesses, Services, and Everything Else You Can Imagine in Raleigh, NC

Imagine you are the head of a large department in a vastly larger company. Your CEO comes to you and mentions that the company chairman's wife is looking for a new job. She'd be a great fit for your department, says the CEO. What do you do? Well, you hire her, of course. That, apparently, was the decision made by the administration of N.C. State University last year. As the Raleigh News and Observer has reported, the University ...

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Ohio State University Information

5 hours ago ago from Get College Info

In the state of Ohio was founded a land grant university in 1870, that became the Ohio State University, a coeducational public research university. This university is the first university in Ohio to receive the extended membership into the Association of American Universities. From the rankings, the Ohio State University ranks 25th in America and top university in Ohio. The main campus of the university is located at Columbus. It is situated ...

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Underage Drinking

4 hours ago ago from Kaitienglish's Blog

This article is about the new implications at the University of Minnesota in their efforts to curb binge drinking by the students.  This topic of binge and under age drinking among college students has been a hot topic in our class and this article fits in nicely and outlines the way in which this university, among others, is making efforts to prevent this dangerous practice.  This program, modeled after the University of Wisconsin's Check ...

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Historically Black Colleges an Affordable Option

10 hours ago ago from blog.scholarships.com

Are you looking for an affordable college option, but finding yourself less than interested in huge state colleges ? You might want to look into attending a HBCU. A new study by the United Negro College Fund finds that, on average, historically black colleges and universities charge much less than their historically white counterparts. The study found that not only do HBCUs charge 31 percent less than comparable institutions, but that their ...

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Black Colleges Slam Miss. Governor's Plan To Merge HBCUs : NPR

11 hours ago ago from NPR

Search hear continuous streams 24-Hour Program Stream NPR News and Shows hear the latest news [4 min 45 sec] Latest NPR Newscast Black Colleges Slam Miss. Governor's Plan To Merge HBCUs December 16, 2009 [11 min 23 sec] text size A A A December 16, 2009 Mississippi Gov. Haley ...

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Despite Economy, Early College Applications Rise

6 hours ago ago from The New York Times

This was the year when the frenzy to gain early admission to the nation's most selective colleges seemed likely to subside, at least in part because a student admitted under a binding early program cannot seek competing financial aid offers as leverage to negotiate a better package. Cheryl Senter/Bloomberg News Baker Hall at Dartmouth College, which among other highly selective colleges, received substantially more ...

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Pittsburgh Sets Vote on Adding Tax on Tuition

21 hours ago ago from The New York Times

The mayor of Pittsburgh calls it the Fair Share Tax. But to officials at the city's 10 colleges and universities and many of their 100,000 students, it is anything but. Jeff Swensen for The New York Times David Gau, a senior at the University of Pittsburgh, said a proposed tuition tax on students was the furthest thing from fair. Jeff Swensen for The New York Times Mayor Luke Ravenstahl said the universities rejected ...

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Bob Ostertag: Governor Schwarzenegger Should Wash his Mouth Out with Soap

5 hours ago ago from Huffington Post

Governor Schwarzenegger should wash his mouth out with soap. Seriously. When I was a kid I was over at a friend's house when he said a bad word and his mother washed his mouth out with soap. It was impressive. I don't think my friend said that word again for a long time. Now California's action-figure governor is acting childishly, and he too needs to take some measure to ensure that he never again speaks as he did this week. He owes it to ...

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