Post tagged with college

  • Re-thinking higher education

    March 17th, 201002:23 PM ET
    By Matthew Pryor
    "Is a college education still worth the investment?" That was the question we asked in an SMI cover story five months ago. Here's a quick summary: In recent decades, going off to college has become the de facto expectation for students graduating from high school. A college degree is often seen as the key to launching a successful career.Bu...

  • For-profit colleges: Market-driven education

    February 15th, 201009:19 AM ET
    By Joseph Slife
    Recently, we made note of a Wall Street Journal report that served as an interesting follow-up to our October 2009 cover article, Is a College Education Still Worth the Investment? The Journal found that the earnings gap between high-school grads and college-grads has long been overstated. This story, from Fast Company magazine, touches on a d...

  • Earnings gap between college grads, high-school grads overstated

    February 12th, 201008:38 AM ET
    By Joseph Slife
    Here's an addendum to our October 2009 cover article, Is a College Education Still Worth the Investment?: The long-touted lifetime-earnings gap between college graduates and high-school graduates isn't as wide as commonly reported. The Wall Street Journal has details in a story that bears out some of the analysis in our cover article. In re...

  • Bachelor's degree: "necessary, but not sufficient"

    December 11th, 200910:36 AM ET
    By Mark Biller
    Following up on Joseph's October cover article, here's an article from Time magazine asking "Is a College Degree Worth Less?" While covering many of the same bases as Joseph's article, the emphasis here is that because so many people have bachelor's degrees now, they just aren't worth that much to employers. In fact, some employers have come t...

  • Exploding 529 plans

    April 02nd, 200911:04 AM ET
    By Mark Biller
    Last month, we wrote about how many target-date mutual funds failed to protect those with short investing time frames last year. For those assuming they were invested conservatively based on the fact that their target date was only a year or two away, it was a cruel realization indeed to find losses of 20%, 30%, or even more. In a similar vei...
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