Previous research related to the economics of higher education has devoted virtually no attention to the economic return for different disciplines or fields of study. The present study examines the relationship between cost and economic return for undergraduate programs of study at one large public institution, the University of Illinois. In the…

May 1977 graduates of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro were surveyed in the winter of 1977-78. The 665 responses to the mailed questionnaire were representative of the 1,065 graduates. In the presentation of findings, differences by school and degree level are noted. At the bachelor's degree level, the 538 responses were also…

Described here is the followup study of the educational and employment experiences of the graduates of a nontraditional degree program that allows students to design their own four-year programs. Graduates of the experimental Bachelor of Elected Studies (BES) program at the University of Minnesota are compared with regular liberal arts graduates…