Economists from the American Economic Association who have studied the impact of certain types of colleges on their graduates’ job prospects, have found students with degrees from for-profit colleges are at a disadvantage in the job market. The subsequent report from the study, which entailed researchers sending out a batch of nearly identical resumes, adjusting the educational history to test their theories, found that on average, graduates with bachelor’s degrees from public colleges got call backs 8.5% of the time. But even if you don’t go into debt for college, there is still an economic cost associated with attending college.
Economists from the American Economic Association who have studied the impact of certain types of colleges on their graduates’ job prospects, have found students with degrees from for-profit colleges are at a disadvantage in the job market. The subsequent report from the study, which entailed researchers sending out a batch of nearly identical resumes, adjusting the educational history to test their theories, found that on average, graduates with bachelor’s degrees from public colleges got call backs 8.5% of the time. In contrast, those with resumes listing degrees from online for-profit colleges were contacted 25% less often.