> Grant Shipley wrote: > > According to the 2005 Utah Foundation Report, UVSC bachelor degree > > graduates earn more money than graduates from any other Utah college > > or university.
Some interesting facts from the report (granted, the data is a couple of years old): 55% of BYU BS degree grads earn less than 30K in their first year after graduation and only 4% earned over 60K (compare that to almost twice as many from UVSC) Quote: "UVSC graduates, in particular, seem to have found higher paying jobs." Quote: "UVSC graduates overwhelmingly lead the way in terms of employment with 83.9% of its graduates in the workforce and 78.4% employed full-time. The next highest was USU with 74.7% percent in the labor force. USU and UVSC bachelor's graduates were employed at a significantly higher rate than the other schools, while BYU bachelor's graduates were employed full-time at the lowest rate [57%]". Now, you may accuse me of massaging or misrepresenting the numbers. In that event, I will disavow all knowledge of said report as you are clearly throwing flamebait ;) More importantly, there is one quote from the report that should alarm us all (well at least those of us in Utah. Sorry Grant.) "Utah's starting salaries do not compare favorably with the national averages. The lower salaries of Utah-based graduates can probably be attributed directly to the lower salary levels that exist for all workers in Utah. As evidence of this, the Utah Foundation survey found that there is a wide disparity in salaries between graduates who find employment in Utah and those who choose to work elsewhere. According to 2004 Bureau of Labor Statistics data, Utah ranked 36th nationally in average annual pay." http://utahfoundation.org/img/pdfs/rr673.pdf Jeremy /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
