Excelsior liberal arts grads ranked #1 by Payscale

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  1. AV8R

    AV8R Active Member

  2. Graves

    Graves Member

    I have a bachelor's from them, and I am in an online master's at the moment. If I get the doctoral slot in psychology I am hoping for, then maybe I'll be a part of those statistics. :p
     
  3. sanantone

    sanantone Well-Known Member

    I think this has a lot to do with the types of students that are attracted to Excelsior. Many of them probably have a lot of work experience, so they are getting a degree for a promotion, a raise, or to qualify for higher paying jobs that require experience and a degree. It's sort of like when TESC had the highest CPA pass rate out of all New Jersey colleges a couple of years ago. TESC probably attracts a lot of people who have worked in business and are good at test taking.
     
  4. Kizmet

    Kizmet Moderator

    It's alwas important to pay attention to the methodology of the study. From the website:


    "Data Set Characteristics

    All data used to produce PayScale’s College Salary Report were collected from employees who successfully completed PayScale’s employee survey.

    Bachelor’s Only: Only employees who possess a bachelor’s degree and no higher degrees are included. This means bachelor’s degree graduates who go on to earn a master’s degree, M.B.A., M.D., J.D., Ph.D., or other advanced degrees are not included.

    For some highly selective schools, graduates with degrees higher than a bachelor’s degree can represent a significant fraction of all graduates.

    Careers that require advanced degrees, such as law or medicine, are not included. Also, we explicitly exclude majors that are no longer bachelor’s level degrees (e.g. pharmacy).

    U.S. Only: All reports are for graduates of schools from the United States who work in the United States. This sample does not include U.S. territories, such as Puerto Rico or Guam.

    Full-Time, Civilian Employees Only: Only graduates who are employed full-time, not on active military duty and paid with either an hourly wage or an annual salary are included.

    Self-employed, project-based, and contract employees are not included. For example, project-based graphic designers and architects, and nearly all small business owners and novelists, are not included.

    Note: The alumni sample considered for the military schools (e.g., The United States Air Force Academy) only includes those who are currently in the civilian labor force and does not include alumni who are active service members.

    Sample Size: Our sample of bachelor only, full-time, civilian employees working in the U.S. is 1.4 million. The sample size for each school included ranges from ~100 profiles to several thousand profiles, depending largely upon the size of the school.

    Selection Criteria for Schools: The primary criteria for inclusion in this report are that a school offer bachelor’s degrees, is located within the 50 United States, and has a substantial number of graduates who work for civilian employers in the U.S.

    Schools with few bachelor's degree graduates, schools that have recently begun offering bachelor's degrees, or schools with a large percentage of graduates earning advanced degrees, may not be included due to insufficient data.

    Of the approximately 3,070 bachelor's degree granting schools in the U.S, the PayScale College Salary Report 2013-14 includes 1016 schools. These schools:
    •Include 86 percent of schools with over 5000 undergraduate enrollment
    •Include 56 percent of schools with over 1000 enrollment
    •Enroll over 75 percent of the estimated undergraduates in bachelor’s degree programs in the U.S.

    based on enrollment data from the U.S. Department of Education's Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS).

    A school's inclusion in or exclusion from the PayScale College Salary Report 2013-14 is not based on school quality, typical graduate earnings, selectivity, or location within the U.S.

    PayScale plans to expand the number of schools for future versions of this report. With more graduate salary data and analysis, we hope eventually to report on nearly all of the bachelor's degree granting institutions in the U.S"
     

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