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College Tuition Costs: Is Your Degree Worth It?
Facts and figures regarding the earning potential of college graduates have been floating around for years, and the numbers vary considerably depending on their source. In recent years, the College Board claimed that the difference in lifetime earnings of a college graduate versus a high school graduate was approximately $800,000 while other estimates have been well over a million dollars in lifetime earning difference.
These figures were supposedly calculated with the assistance of a 2002 Census Bureau report, but according to a February 2010 Wall Street Journal article, Dr. Mark Schneider, a vice president of the American Institutes for Research
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Melissa Rhone earned her Bachelor of Music in Education from the University of Tampa. She resides in the Tampa Bay area and enjoys writing about college, pop culture, and epilepsy awareness.