I sometimes think I went to the wrong college. By many measures — most of them financial — my choice...was not the smartest one.
College Rankings Fail to Measure the Influence of the Institution (NY Times)
The new U.S. College Scorecard adds valuable information to the vast amount of post-secondary information available through rankings and other resources. But it suffers from many of the same flaws that afflict nearly every college ranking system: There is no way to know what, if any, impact a particular college has on its students’ earnings, or life for that matter. Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/business/new-college-rankings-dont-show-how-alma-mater-affects-earnings.html
When Choosing a College, How Should Students Gauge the Payoff? (Chronicle)
What you stand to make after college, the government is telling prospective students, ought to be a factor in how you choose that college.