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Three great charts from the Economist focused on the value of higher education and how it has changed over time. Article notes that "college graduate premium" does exist but that it has leveled off since 2000:
The main piece of evidence cited by policymakers is the “graduate premium”—the difference between the average earnings of someone with a degree and someone with no more than a secondary-school education, after accounting for fees and the income forgone while studying. This gap is often expressed as the “return on investment” in higher education, or the annualised boost to lifetime earnings from gaining a degree. Research by the New York Federal Reserve shows that the return on investment in higher education soared between 1980 and 2000 in America, before levelling off at around 15% a year. In other words, an investment equal to the cost of tuition and earnings forgone while studying would have to earn 15% annual interest before it matched the average value over a working life of gaining a degree.
Three charts below are interactive if you go to the article on the Economist website.
Note: Tertiary degree equals post-secondary (or college) degrees
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This is a challenging chart to read but worth the effort! This becomes an interactive, where you can identify more jobs if go to the Economist website.
How to read this chart (a lot going on):
Let's look at Registered Nurses and Education Counselors as examples:
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This chart compares the percentage of workers with a college degree in a given field in 1970 (X axis) compared to workers in that same field with a college degree in 2015. For example, about 40% of Health-record specialists had college degrees in 1970 compared to about 21% who had college degrees in 2015. All occupations to the right of the gray line represent fields where the workforce is less educated (lower percentage of college degrees) in 2015 compared to 1970. Again this graph is interactive if you go to the Economist website.
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