Will College Pay Off?: A Guide to the Most Important Financial Decision You'll Ever Make

Insightful and informative, Will College Pay Off? helps students and parents make smart financial decisions and provides the foundation for students to succeed in the real world.. A barrage of advertising offers us new degrees designed to lead to specific jobs, but we see no information on whether graduates ever get those jobs. Adding to the confusion, the same degree can cost dramatically different amounts for different people. How parents and students can find out what different colleges actually deliver to students and whether it is something that employers really want. In Will College Pay Off?, Peter Cappelli, an acclaimed expert in employment trends, the workforce, and education, provides hard evidence that counters conventional wisdom and helps us make cost-effective choices. Why the most expensive colleges may actually be the cheapest in the long run. The decision of whether to go to college, or where, is hampered by poor information and inadequate understanding of the financial risks involved. Among the issues Cappelli analyzes are: What the real link is between a college degree and a job that enables you to pay off the cost of college

Essential reading for parents, students, and grads. And everyone else. This book describes the reality of higher education and major changes taking place in labor markets. The gist is that college has been over-sold as path to a good job and secure income. Work ethic and social skills are important; academic knowledge is not. One implication is that the online degrees, which supply academic knowledge outside of a social setting where social skills can develop, are exactly the opposite of what one needs.The conclusions seem to be 1) get the least expensive degree from a normal, reputable university where you can have the standard,. "The simple answer and the not-so-simple answer" according to Reid Mccormick. “A career is a marathon, not a sprint.”The cost of college has been a point of debate for a couple of decades. It is true that tuition at colleges have increased significantly over the past twenty or thirty years. Though some are worried, the response has been the same: college is worth the investment. The narrative is part of American culture: you finish high school, you go to college, you work hard, and you leave college with great job opportunities ahead of you.Well, things are not as clear as they used to be. The great recession combined with i. mkpfox said Recommended for every college student or parent. This book is a methodical analysis of how investing in a college education can be harmful or helpful. Cappelli's approach was a no-BS investigation of data with reasonable conclusions and recommendations. It was never a question of whether college would pay off for me. But he explains how to avoid causing harm to your education and work career. More importantly, he offers an idea of what will create the most value from education and how to turn that in to a job. He drives home what a new student should do while in and after school to ensure a college degree is