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Education Return on Investment: Are Students Picking the Best ROI College Majors?
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Ceulemans, Cedric
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Spring 2020
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2020
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College education has long been defined as the best pathway to financial stability. College costs have increase year over year beating the rate of inflation. Today, college tuition represents a sizable investment of a person's wealth. In this paper we explore return on investment calculations via a formulated Net Present Value between Liberal Arts and STEM schools. STEM schools overall provide a higher NPV so we would assume more students would be choosing STEM schools and declaring STEM majors. A deeper dive suggests correlation between field of study and their starting salaries is what guides student's choice. It is not simply Liberal Arts versus STEM return on investment.
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