College affordability : overlooked long-term trends and recent 50-state patterns / Jerry Sheehan Davis, USA Group Foundation.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Davis, Jerry S.
Corporate Author: USAGroup Foundation
Language:English
Published: Indianapolis, IN : USA Group Foundation, 2000.
Series:USAGroup Foundation new agenda series ; v. 3, no. 1.
Subjects:
Education, Higher > United States > Finance.
College costs > United States > Statistics.
Genre:
Statistics.
Physical Description:76 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Executive summary
  • Introduction
  • Trends in college prices and family incomes
  • Trends in college graduates' earnings
  • Paying for college charges with increased earnings
  • The cost versus benefits analysis for students who leave college without degrees
  • Changes in college participation and graduation ratios
  • State-by-state differences in college affordability
  • State-by-state differences in graduation productivity ratios
  • State-by-state differences in affordability and graduation productivity
  • Some policy implications of the long-term national trends
  • Some policy implications of the state-by-state patterns.