{"id":6916,"date":"2009-07-26T14:12:41","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T22:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=6916"},"modified":"2009-07-26T14:12:41","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T22:12:41","slug":"do-elite-colleges-produce-the-best-paid-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/07\/do-elite-colleges-produce-the-best-paid-graduates\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Elite Colleges Produce the Best-Paid Graduates?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times: <a href=\"http:\/\/economix.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/20\/do-elite-colleges-produce-the-best-paid-graduates\/\">Do Elite Colleges Produce the Best-Paid Graduates?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Forget U.S. News\u2019s academic rankings and Playboy\u2019s party-school list. For some prospective college freshmen, here\u2019s the important question: Will I make more money if I go to Harvard, or if I go to Harvey Mudd?<\/p>\n<p>PayScale, a site that collects data on salaries for different professions, argues that it can help students answer that question. Today the company is releasing an updated, gigantic data set on the salaries of graduates from hundreds of universities and colleges, as well as salaries and career choices broken down by department\/major.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times: Do Elite Colleges Produce the Best-Paid Graduates? Forget U.S. News\u2019s academic rankings and Playboy\u2019s party-school list. For some prospective college freshmen, here\u2019s the important question: Will I make more money if I go to Harvard, or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/07\/do-elite-colleges-produce-the-best-paid-graduates\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2268,2273],"tags":[1288956],"class_list":["post-6916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-salaryeconomic-benefits","category-students","tag-salaryeconomic-benefits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6917,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6916\/revisions\/6917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}