Sorry to hear about your situation there, it sucks to be trapped like that.
Thanks for the meta-level stuff. I’ll be writing future blog posts about career choice more broadly, and that will be useful information to integrate into those posts. Much appreciated.
If you’re planning to do a series of blog posts about this, I recommend payscale’s college career data although you may have to make selection effect adjustments. Mean SAT or GRE scores for each group might be a good adjustment. I also believe they count individuals who graduate but fail the licensing exam. For my profession, the starting salary looked about $10,000 too low. That’s my best explanation for the disparity. Bryan Caplan has been writing a book about education. Several of his Econlog blog posts would be useful to you.
Sorry to hear about your situation there, it sucks to be trapped like that.
Thanks for the meta-level stuff. I’ll be writing future blog posts about career choice more broadly, and that will be useful information to integrate into those posts. Much appreciated.
If you’re planning to do a series of blog posts about this, I recommend payscale’s college career data although you may have to make selection effect adjustments. Mean SAT or GRE scores for each group might be a good adjustment. I also believe they count individuals who graduate but fail the licensing exam. For my profession, the starting salary looked about $10,000 too low. That’s my best explanation for the disparity. Bryan Caplan has been writing a book about education. Several of his Econlog blog posts would be useful to you.
Thanks for the tip about payscale, and Bryan Caplan’s posts, I’ll take a look. Let me know if there are any specific posts you would recommend.
Just glancing through it I came across this: http://www.bcaplan.com/returns.htm
Thanks for the specific reference!