The Atlantic Mikhail Zinshteyn Jan. 12, 2017 More Americans are pursuing graduate degrees, but students from wealthier backgrounds are most likely to earn the degrees that pay the most, a new report published by the Urban Institute shows. “I think that the idea that people from low-income backgrounds are so unlikely ever to get to medical school or law school is definitely a problem,” said Sandy Baum, a scholar on the economics of higher education and a co-writer of the report. More... https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/01/wealthier-graduate-students-earn-more-lucrative-degrees/512933/ This article hits on a number of topics that would be of interest to this forum.
It's interesting that the authors of the report think that an MD or JD are the graduate degrees that necessarily pay the most.
It's sort of implied by this: “I think that the idea that people from low-income backgrounds are so unlikely ever to get to medical school or law school is definitely a problem”
This is suddenly a new concept? Did The Atlantic seriously think that all those students cutting each other's throats to get into Harvard, Wharton, and Booth business schools were doing to for altruistic reasons?
They certainly make more than people with master's degrees in education, social work, library science etc.
Often, probably, but that still assumes that a recent JD graduate necessarily finds a legal job at all, and even then one that pays more than a public defenders' office.
