…it?” gets wrongly conflated with “should everybody go to college?” Matthews writes: So does college raise incomes? Is it an investment good enough to make widely accessible? Yes, it is….

…millions more were spent by trade associations representing groups of schools. The Association of American Medical Colleges, for example, spent $2,210,000, and the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities…

…humanities.  This is one of the report’s immediate goals, phrased of course in the financial imperative, “Increase investment in research and discovery.”  The report as a whole is presented as…

…Grants for remedial coursework. “A huge proportion of this $40 billion annual federal investment,” Petrilli writes, “is flowing to people who simply aren’t prepared to do college-level work. And this…

…The Erosion of the Labor Market for College Graduates The view that college graduation provides a near-guaranteed ticket to a prosperous middle-class life style conflicts with the reality of today’s…

…suggest a better investment–establish an undergraduate college heavy on the humanities and social sciences (including economics) that recruits only top students. (David Koch took a step in this academic direction…

Originally run as a Manhattan Institute Policy Brief. The growth of student-loan debt has raised a vexing question: Is a college degree still a good investment? No segment of American…

…and benefits of college. But the current trends of student loan defaults and recent graduate underemployment show us that everyone has been underinformed about a college investment. The media spotlight…

…barista or a bellhop. Let’s stop telling those young people that going to college is a very good investment. For many, it’s not an investment at all, but merely an…

…the benefits of employment, income, wealth and a greater public good.  But to participate in that greater public good, individuals must be well schooled. Reminding us of such fundamentals is…

…a college education might well justify the investment of time and resources. Professor Harris’s pessimistic assessment of college education as an investment was almost unanimously pooh-poohed at the time, although…

…singles out public investment in higher education as the problem, why leave it at that? Human capital investment is human capital investment, regardless of when it occurs. Why not attack…

…good example. Lots of college students think they need to devote time and energy to “saving the planet,” which requires stopping the use of fossil fuels. They insist that college…

The impulse to impose Sarbanes-Oxley on universities is tempting. Indeed, formal legal mandates on conflicts of interest and the other attributes of good governance might be even more appropriate for…

…the old notion that going to college was a good investment in the face of proof that it isn’t. Actually, there has been an imbalance between the number of  “good”…

…tuition cost explosion and to a higher education bubble that cannot be sustained forever; Academic rigor has almost certainly declined over time, and there is good evidence that colleges add…

…college degrees generally fare better in the labor market does not mean that they fare better because they took college courses. Nor does it mean that everyone who obtains a college degree…