The Curtis Index

• Average starting salary for college graduate: $50,566

-Concern about job options out of the gate

• Percentage of college graduates working a job that requires a degree: 62.1% o Worry about value of a degree

• Percentage of college graduates working a job related to their major: 27.3% o Anxiety over choosing the right major

• Underemployment of white college graduates: 3.8% o Worry about job availability • Median Salary of a MIT BS Graduate from the class of 2016: $80,000 o Considering the value of a more prestigious school

• Out of 2016 MIT Bachelor Graduates, three times as many listed the content of the job offer they accepted as -essential" to their choice as did salary o Having the freedom to choose a job I'd enjoy rather than scrounging for cash

• Out of class of 2016 MIT graduates, the median starting salary was 29.4% higher for Master's of Engineering graduates than it was for Bachelor's of Engineering graduates o Considering the necessity of a master's degree

• Percentage of 2016 MIT Bachelor's graduates working a job related to their major: 79.9% o Anxiety over choosing the right major

• Increase in median student loan debt at for-profit colleges over non-profit private colleges: 33% o Curiosity about for-profit colleges

• Percentage of total spending dedicated to marketing and recruitment at for-profit colleges: 22.7% •

Percentage of total spending dedicated to education at for-profit colleges: 17.2%