stayfocused posted:I am probably going to get bashed for this, not trying to step on any toes, but I see mention of all of these expensive D2s and D3s, etc... and baseball and I am always wondering why.....unless money/cost have ZERO bearing on the decision. I have a cousin who went to Washington and Lee, went into extreme student debt for the "prestige" of having that degree. Was it worth it? Don't know but he ended up at the big in-state public school for grad school....which he would have ended up at anyway if he had gone to one of our in-state schools to begin with. If you are a fan of Dave Ramsey......and know what he says about paying for college, then get the most bang for the buck.....in my opinion a degree is a degree, as long is comes from an accredited school. I could sit here all day and add more schools to the list below, but I just stuck with Maine.
School Yearly Tuition (in-state) Average Starting Salary of Grads
Bates $52,042 $41,000
Univ. of S. Maine $7,336 $38,000
Univ. of Maine $8,580 $59,000
Quick question - where did you source the data in the grid?