Scholarships – Merit vs. Need: This story is reported as an “either or” message. It’s not true. Merit scholarships are a competitive tool used to attract the most appealing students to enroll. Merit scholarships are about the institution and its operations requirements. Need based scholarships are about supporting the disadvantaged.
More from Graduate Survey
According to Sokanu, degree programs posting high levels of satisfaction were
Women’s Studies, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Social Psychology,
Applied Mathematics and Philosophy and Religious Studies. Degrees in
Operations Logistics and E-commerce, Medical Assisting, Automotive Repair,
Medical Administration and Accounting placed as the least satisfying degree programs.
Backwards
Online career support company Sokanu surveyed 22,000 college graduates.
The results: jobs most in-demand and high-paying among employers are among
the least popular among college students, and degrees with the lowest levels
of earning potential are attracting the greatest number of students.
It’s an immense opportunity!
Tuition and College Quality
For better or worse Americans associate high quality with high price. It’s true for colleges and universities. The higher the tuition the higher the implied quality. The fact is that most students do not pay the list tuition and there are many high quality schools with reasonable tuition.