在明尼苏达州，大满贯赛事发现；与大学学习课程有关的未来收入

Washington, D.C.- 专业很重要。那个简单的咒语是明尼苏达州学生为大学和外界工作场所做准备的明智建议。

A new report conducted for the Minnesota Office of Higher Education by College Measures, a division of the American Institutes for Research (AIR), examines the salaries by major of graduates up to four years after they get degrees or certificates from Minnesota public colleges and universities.

明尼苏达州高等教育办公室（OHE）的专员拉里·波格米勒（Larry Pogemiller）表示：“随着高等教育的成本增加，学生选择将导致良好工作的专业的压力也是如此。”“本网站提供了明尼苏达州特有的基于数据的趋势，可以帮助学生和家人做出明智的决定。”

“As a nation, we are fixated on the reputation of certain top-tier schools” said Mark Schneider, a vice president and Institute Fellow at AIR. “But in terms of return on investment, there is far less variation across graduates than one might expect. Choice of major has a far more dramatic impact on what students earn after graduation than where they go to college.”

The report’s associated website, Education Pays for Minnesota, allows prospective students to engage in a deep investigation into the wages of graduates from different majors throughout the state. For example, they may compare the wages of graduates from every psychology program in every public and many private universities in Minnesota, or compare the wages of graduates with degrees in different majors (sociology or math, for example) at a single institution, like the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Similarly fine-grained data can be found at different credential levels, allowing a comparison of wages earned by students in, say, mathematics at the associate's, bachelor’s and master’s degree levels.

该报告的一个一致主题是某些专业的受欢迎程度与未来收入潜力之间的脱节。例如，心理学是明尼苏达州最受欢迎的专业之一。然而，即使是拥有心理学学士学位的最高薪水毕业生的中位数工资，就读于Argosy University/Twin Cities的人的工资也低于所有具有学士学位的毕业生的全州中位数 - 近2,000美元。该州几乎每个心理学计划的学士学位的毕业生的中位数工资都低于所有毕业生与同学学位的中位工资，无论专业如何。

A similar trend can be found at the master’s degree level. Median wages of those who earned graduate degrees in social work ranged from less than $45,000 (St. Cloud University)—which is only $2,000 more than the statewide median wage for all graduates with associate's degrees and almost $3,000 less than the statewide median wage for all graduates with bachelor’s degrees—to about $54,000 (Augsburg College), which is almost $20,000 less than the median wage for completers of all graduate degrees.

By contrast, graduates in many health-related majors earn higher wages, as do technicians at nearly every level of higher education. Despite a push to increase the education of nurses, requiring them to have a bachelor’s degree, graduates with an associate's degree in nursing are well rewarded in the job market, earning a median income of $62,011, well over the statewide median for all bachelor’s degree programs, $47,659. Students who earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing are among the highest paid graduates, earning about twice as much as the lowest paid graduates—those with bachelor’s degrees in fine arts.

The report also found that the shortage of graduates in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields does not translate uniformly into higher wages for graduates in these fields. For example, biology is by far the largest STEM program in the state. However, the wages of graduates with bachelor’s degrees in biology were about $4,000 lower than the statewide median wage for all graduates with bachelor’s degrees. But graduates with bachelor’s degrees in mathematics had the third highest median wages among the largest programs, around $9,000 more than all graduates with bachelor’s degrees.

施耐德说：“简而言之，高等教育通常会付费，但对于某些毕业生而言，高等教育比其他毕业生要多得多。”

Pogemiller cautions, however, that while this data is important, it only reflects one aspect of the value of postsecondary education.

“The benefits of some degrees in terms of earnings may not become evident for as many as ten years after completion,” said Pogemiller. “There are also important social and critical thinking skills learned in college that are needed to solve the increasingly complex problems our world faces. Our democratic system relies on an educated populace.”

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