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College

Would You Ever Pay for an MBA With Your OWN Money?

A few years ago, I wrapped up an MBA that was primarily funded by my employers (I paid for books).  It was a decent program and I’m glad I did it for multiple reasons both professional and personal (for instance, I have my MBA program to thank for this blog ironically, when for my New [...]

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Irony: Professor That Tried to Kill My Career Wants to Connect on LinkedIn

I couldn’t help but laugh when I got a LinkedIN invitation this week from my old college professor.  Long story short, I got the offer of a lifetime right around graduation time and the company kind of botched the order of activities.  While I had already been extended the offer and passed the drug test, [...]

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9% Risk-Free Return in 1 Month: See How I Did It

It’s very rare that you hear the phrase “risk-free return” these days without it being tied to an FDIC-insured CD yielding south of 3%.  Heck, even US Treasuries are no longer considered risk-free by S&P following the recent credit downgrade and there are only 4 AAA companies left in the S&P500.  So, you’re probably thinking [...]

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College Costs Have Gone Parabolic – What You Can Do Now

I’ve been reading about state after state slashing spending budgets because the money simply isn’t there.  Over the past few years, as part of the government bailout of states, banks, automakers, homeowners struggling with mortgages and pretty much anyone else that WASN”T responsible (at the expense of those who were), part of the stimulus spending [...]

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College Degrees That Leave You With DEBT FOR LIFE

A few weeks ago, I published an article that pissed off a lot of people.  Well, Communications major really.  It was titled, “A Question for All You Communications Majors“.  In retrospect, the article I wrote wasn’t really the message I intended to convey.  What started off as a post on the ramifications of taking on [...]

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A Question for all you Communications Majors…

Like clockwork, the regurgitated article on newly minted college grads with 6-figure debt are flying again.  You can always count on this old standby from CNN, Yahoo, and the like.  Recently, it was HuffingtonPost with a similar tale (here).  What is consistent across all these solemn tales is usually a naive Communications major.  It’s rare [...]

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College Cheating Viral Video -The “Deal” I Would Have Offered

Last week there was a popular video circulating where a college professor confronts his class after learning that somehow, students obtained access to the test key used for an exam and statistically, it appeared as though about 1/3 of the class cheated.  The video is somewhat lengthy, so I’ll break down the high points for [...]

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Top MBA ROI: Day 1 Data Shows Huge Returns

Businessweek released a pretty comprehensive report on top MBA programs both in the US and abroad.  I like the format they used where they took aggregated data on median salary upon entering the program and starting salary upon exit.  If I make a few very basic assumptions about the program, I can derive some quick [...]

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Want to Know What the ROI on Your College Is? Report Tells All

As an avid reader of BusinessWeek, I was interested in a recent article outlining the most comprehensive study I’ve seen to date on trying to actually pinpoint what kind of return on investment (ROI) a particular college delivers to graduates.  Anecdotally, we all know that guy who went to a prestigious private school for $40,000 [...]

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Is Private School Worth It? It Depends…

Where I grew up, everyone pretty much went to the township public school – at least everyone I knew. Occasionally, a new kid would enter our class in 6th grade or 9th grade after having spent the prior years at a private school.  Based on my anecdotal recollection, there didn’t seem to be a correlation [...]

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