{"id":5056,"date":"2018-11-29T21:43:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T02:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=5056"},"modified":"2018-11-30T16:19:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T21:19:34","slug":"is-this-degree-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/11\/29\/is-this-degree-worth\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this degree worth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5044\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5044\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/AW112918-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5044\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/AW112918-3-300x293.jpg\" alt=\"Is this degree worth?\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/AW112918-3-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/AW112918-3.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5044\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Is this degree worth?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you mean in terms of earning power, yes. 2017 median household annual income of a householder with a college degree was about $92k, while median annual household income of householder with HS degree was about $45k. (BC Access only: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/education-income\">bit.ly\/education-income<\/a>) If you mean intrinsic worth, that&#8217;s harder to judge, but in the mind of this library wall, more knowledge is always worth more than less knowledge, even if acquiring it is sometimes painful &amp; expensive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you mean in terms of earning power, yes. 2017 median household annual income of a householder with a college degree was about $92k, while median annual household income of householder with HS degree was about $45k. (BC Access only: bit.ly\/education-income) If you mean intrinsic worth, that&#8217;s harder to judge, but in the mind of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/11\/29\/is-this-degree-worth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is this degree worth?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-boston-college","category-life-career"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5056"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5079,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056\/revisions\/5079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}