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The United States continues to dominate the rankings of schools around the world with the best reputation among fellow academics, according to a new survey out of Great Britain this week.
There was little change this year among the top schools on U.S. News & World Report’s Best Graduate School 2015 rankings released this week.
Harvard, Stanford and the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania all tied for the top spot on the list. Wharton, in third place last year, moved up to tie the other two schools.
The survey, by Robert Morris University Polling Institute, found that those with a college degree were more likely to say they have both a higher quality of life and a higher financial standard of living.
Among those surveyed, 75.5% of the college educated reported having a good or very good standard of living, while 63.6% of the non-college educated said the same.
More jobs were added to payrolls in the United States in February than projected, and far more than the low gains recorded in December and January.
On the downside, the report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) also showed that the February gains – 175,000 jobs – were lower than the average gain of 189,000 jobs per month for the last 12 months.
A new Galllup survey underway this spring will determine students satisfaction with the education they have received, including their happiness with their jobs and level of overall satisfaction with their personal lives.
In a bit of whimsy, Business Insider decided to make a list of the colleges that showed the best “team spirit” when it comes to the college’s sports teams. Business Insider partnered with Niche to analysis hundreds of colleges, using information about varsity sports, social life and school spirit, all based on Niche’s rankings of schools with the best overall student experience.
Anti-tax organizations and a prevailing attitude among resident and politicians in many states that public dollars should not be used for higher education have led to states paying less of the costs for education at public universities.
That means the cost of going to college has shifted more and more to the student themselves.
Numbers from the Federal Reserve recently released show that the amount of student debt across the country has increased dramatically. At the end of 2003, the aggregate amount of student loan debt nationwide was $253 billion. By the end of 2013, according to the Federal Reserve, that number had reached $1.08 trillion.
Colleges and universities now try specifically to provide extra services to students who are related to the military in some way. Because of the large number of military service members, veterans and their dependents now attending post-secondary schools, colleges and universities now offer services specifically aimed at military students.
In a news release about the poll, Lumina Foundation president and CEO Jamie P. Merisotis said, “College degrees and other credentials are more important than ever, but times have changed, and the vast majority of employers in America put acquired skills far ahead of alma mater or major when it comes to hiring.”
