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8. Brown University
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- 20-year return on investment: $867,000
- Annualized return: 13%
- Total 4-year cost of attendance : $229,100
This Rhode Island-based university encourages students to create their own courses of study across a wide variety of disciplines.
The school's open curriculum seems to be paying off. Students earn an average salary of about $55,000 in the first five years after school, according to PayScale.
While less than a fourth of Brown's graduates earn science, technology, engineering or math degrees, biology and economics are among the school's most popular areas of study, according to the U.S. News and World Report.
Brown is one of the oldest schools in the country, and like other highly-selective Ivy League schools, it attracts academically-driven students with high earning potential, said PayScale's Frank.
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"The more selective schools are letting in fewer students and picking from the cream of the crop," she said. "Were those students going to be successful regardless of where they attended?"
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发表于 2017-3-6 22:00:48
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