What is your ROI for your college/university?
ROI = base salary / yearly cost of attendance
Super curious because mine is like 100/8 = 12.25 (went to state school)
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Fucking nerd
That… is not even how it should be estimated
Assume a total discounted lifetime earning potential for if you DIDNT go to college as a baseline, and then a total discounted lifetime earning if you did go
I’m assuming I’d have an average of 100k if I didn’t go to college over a 40 year career so 4M in lifetime earnings
If I work in finance I’m assuming 500k but for 20 years which is 10M
The delta is 6M divided by 300k = ~20x ROI
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