Colleges teach the most valuable career skills when they don’t stick narrowly to preprofessional education
- Written by Daniel V. McGehee, Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Iowa
Tracking graduates’ earnings is just one way to measure the benefit of higher education.iStock/Getty Images PlusAcross state legislatures and in Congress, debates are intensifying about the value of funding certain college degree programs – and higher education, more broadly.
The growing popularity of professional graduate degrees over...