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Message: [QUOTE="Alydar, post: 3587933, member: 730"] That's the BS I referred to. The study would have been valid if they compared college grads with equal wealth/income in the families. At a school like Duke or Stanford, smallish private schools, the mean earnings of grads are scewed by the huge incomes of a relative handful of grads. If you were to compare the median earnings of grads with similar family income profiles you'd see little difference. It's not that schools like say U of Mich don't produce high earners, it's that there graduating classes are huge compared to Harvard, Yale, Stanford or Duke. Take a thousand children of Doctors/lawyers and another thousand children of food service workers and sent them to 2 different colleges of equal reputations, the children of the professional parents would earn more in their lifetimes. That doesn't make the degree they earned any more valuable. [/QUOTE]