Look up the financial value of tens of thousands of college degrees.
Higher Education
Student debt now exceeds $1.5 trillion. We must overhaul a system that, for too long, has incentivized colleges and universities to charge unaffordable prices for degrees that do not always improve the lives of their recipients. Measures of return on investment (ROI) can help ensure that that institutions are accountable for the economic outcomes of the students they plunge into indebtedness.
All Higher Education
We compared what college graduates earn vs. what they would have earned had they not gone to college.
Some degrees are worth millions, while others have no net financial value. The biggest factor is your major.
Congress should instead reward community colleges that produce good outcomes for students.
The rising cost of college has not been borne by students, but by taxpayers—through rising subsidies.
We need less emphasis on high-stakes exams and more emphasis on learning.
To relieve the financial burden on students and their families, address the fundamental causes of tuition growth.
This blueprint offers a fiscally responsible agenda to help student borrowers in financial distress, while limiting relief to upper-income debtors and holding colleges accountable for their students’ poor loan outcomes.