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  • The average college graduate's debt in 2009 was $24,000, up six percent from the year before, and that's before the full impact of the economic downturn.

    Richard (RJ) Eskow: Backdoor Bailout, Tea Party Fakeout: The GOP's Secret $90 Billion Gift to Wall Street RJ 2010

  • A 1991 study of the career success of full-time MBA graduates from a large U.S. university used photographs taken on entry to the program to obtain independent ratings of each graduate's attractiveness.

    The Untapped Power of Erotic Capital Catherine Hakim 2011

  • To qualify to receive federal student aid, a program now must pass one of three tests: at least 35% of former students are paying down their loan balances by at least $1, or a typical graduate's loan payment doesn't exceed 30% of his or her discretionary income or 12% of total earnings.

    Education Department to Release Final 'Gainful Employment' Rule Melissa Korn 2011

  • The scholarships will go to study of political science, the 1994 graduate's major at GWU -- with preference to Hispanics from California.

    Lottery winners donate $1.1 million to GWU Daniel de Vise 2011

  • Measures relate to both input, eg expenditure by the university on its students, and output, eg a graduate's probability of finding a graduate-level job.

    Guardian University Guide 2012: methodology 2011

  • His players uniformly talk about the William and Mary graduate's incredible intellect.

    Steelers' Tomlin Part of NFL's New Breed Aditi Kinkhabwala 2011

  • But after teaching and leading at the college and university level for many years -- and at a variety of different types of institutions -- there is no question in my mind: If the desired outcome is a graduate's maturity, confidence, intellectual acumen and the preparation necessary to be successful in virtually any career, then the value of an SLC education is ultimately priceless.

    Karen Lawrence: The Cost of College: Weighing Expense With Value Karen Lawrence 2011

  • But after teaching and leading at the college and university level for many years -- and at a variety of different types of institutions -- there is no question in my mind: If the desired outcome is a graduate's maturity, confidence, intellectual acumen and the preparation necessary to be successful in virtually any career, then the value of an SLC education is ultimately priceless.

    Karen Lawrence: The Cost of College: Weighing Expense With Value Karen Lawrence 2011

  • The work was creditable — displaying an art-school graduate's “chops,” if no real vitality or sense of purpose — but why it was adorning the fridge with by-now yellowing tape and its corners become crinkly, I had no idea.

    Ennui Christopher Snyder 2010

  • To qualify to receive federal student aid, a program now must pass one of three tests: at least 35% of former students are paying down their loan balances by at least $1, or a typical graduate's loan payment doesn't exceed 30% of his or her discretionary income or 12% of total earnings.

    Education Department to Release Final 'Gainful Employment' Rule Melissa Korn 2011

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