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Will College Pay Off?: A Guide to the Most Important Financial Decision You´ll Ever Make
Peter Cappelli
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Description for Will College Pay Off?: A Guide to the Most Important Financial Decision You´ll Ever Make
Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, TBD. BIC Classification: JNKG; JNM; VSB; VSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 418.
The decision of whether to go to college, or where, is hampered by poor information and inadequate understanding of the financial risk involved.Adding to the confusion, the same degree can cost dramatically different amounts for different people. A barrage of advertising offers new degrees designed to lead to specific jobs, but we see no information on whether graduates ever get those jobs. Mix in a frenzied applications process, and pressure from politicians for relevant" programs, and there is an urgent need to separate myth from reality.Peter Cappelli, an acclaimed expert in employment trends, the workforce, and education, provides hard ... Read more
The decision of whether to go to college, or where, is hampered by poor information and inadequate understanding of the financial risk involved.Adding to the confusion, the same degree can cost dramatically different amounts for different people. A barrage of advertising offers new degrees designed to lead to specific jobs, but we see no information on whether graduates ever get those jobs. Mix in a frenzied applications process, and pressure from politicians for relevant" programs, and there is an urgent need to separate myth from reality.Peter Cappelli, an acclaimed expert in employment trends, the workforce, and education, provides hard ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
PublicAffairs,U.S.
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781610395267
SKU
V9781610395267
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99-1
About Peter Cappelli
Peter Cappelli is the George W. Taylor Professor of Management at The Wharton School and director of Wharton's centre for Human Resources. A research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, he has long been involved in federal government policy-making regarding the workforce and education. He was also co-director of the US Department of Education's National centre on the ... Read more
Reviews for Will College Pay Off?: A Guide to the Most Important Financial Decision You´ll Ever Make
"It's precisely the right moment for a book to help 18-year-olds and their parents make this important educational and financial decision... Cappelli offers some good tips: Student loans are stickier than a mortgage: You can't escape them with bankruptcy, and you may find your wages garnished if you try to walk away from them, never mind your bad credit rating. ... Read more