Colleges Worth Your Money

Colleges Worth Your Money: A Guide to What America's Top Schools Can Do for You is an invaluable guide for students making the crucial decision of where to attend college when our thinking about higher education is changing radically. At a time when costs are soaring and competition for admission is higher than ever, the college-bound need to know how prospective schools will benefit them both as students and as graduates. Colleges Worth Your Money provides the most up-to-date, accurate, and comprehensive information for gauging the ROI of America's top schools, including: - In-depth profiles of 220 of the top colleges and universities across the U.S. - Over seventy-five key statistics about each school that cover unique admissions and career-related data points. - The solid facts on career outcomes, including each school's connections with recruiters, the rate of employment post-graduation, the organizations where students land internships, the companies most likely to hire students from a particular school, and much more. - Data and commentary on each college's merit and need-based aid awards, average student debt, and starting salary outcomes. - "Top Colleges for America's Top Majors" lists highlight schools that have the best programs in 40+ disciplines. - Lists of the top feeder undergraduate colleges into medical school, law school, tech, journalism, Wall Street, engineering, and more. - Lists featuring recommended summer programs and test prep providers.

Andrew Belasco, PhD, a graduate of Georgetown University and Harvard University, is CEO of College Transitions, an educational consulting firm, and the co-author of The Enlightened College Applicant: A New Approach to the Search and Admissions Process. His work has been published in the nation's top higher education journals and featured in dozens of media outlets, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and NPR. He lives in Doylestown, PA. Dave Bergman, EdD, is a co-founder of College Transitions and oversees the collegetransitions.com blog and dataverse, reaching an audience of more than twelve million readers annually. Dave is also the co-author of The Enlightened College Applicant: A New Approach to the Search and Admissions Process. He lives in Conshohocken, PA. Kelsea Conlin is the Director of Writing Support at College Transitions and leads in developing content for collegetransitions.com. She holds a BA in English with a concentration in Creative Writing from Tufts University and an MA in Teaching Writing from Johns Hopkins University. Her short fiction has appeared in Chautauqua. He lives in Londonderry, NH. Michael Trivette, PhD, is a co-founder of College Transitions and has experience working within the University of North Carolina System and the University of System of Georgia. His work has been published in Educational Policy, the Review of Higher Education, the Journal of Higher Education, and the Journal of Education Finance. He lives in Charlotte, NC.

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