Students and their families need appropriate information, and they should include the performance measurements that President Barack Obama has proposed, such as an institution's graduation and transfer rates and its graduates' earnings and the percentage of advanced degrees earned by graduates.
While details are sketchy about what the rating system will look like, a fact sheet released to the media by the Obama administration prior to the president's appearance in Buffalo cites as possible measures graduation rates, the earnings of students who have graduated, and advanced degrees earned by students who have graduated.
Hostos Community College, also in the Bronx, was 27th in degrees earned by Hispanics (279).
Black workers with degrees earned 23% less on average than white workers with equivalent qualifications.
In 1960 a household composed of two people with graduate degrees earned 76% above the average; by 2005, they earned 119% more.
Among those ages 25 to 34, women with college degrees earned 79 percent more than those with high school diplomas, and men, 74 percent more.
It was a bond made of thousands of marriages between Saudis and Americans and tens of thousands of college degrees earned by Saudis in the United States.
First-year teachers with master's degrees earned $43,268 in Nassau County -- about 27percentt more than those in New York.
In 2000, those with bachelor's degrees earned 1.82 times as much, on average, as high school graduates, according to data from the Census Bureau.
The company's literature never fails to mention Wayne Dyer's or Joan Borysenko's doctorates, nor the medical degrees earned by Christiane Northrup, David Hawkins and Mona Lisa Schulz.
Those with master's degrees earned about $36,000 this year, slightly more than they would make as teachers in Austria, they said.
