A Faith-Based University in Houston
REASON 1: College Degrees are More Valuable Than Ever
According to Georgetown University鈥檚 Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW), in our country鈥檚 recovery from the Great Recession, workers with a Bachelor鈥檚 degree or higher gained 8.4 million jobs while workers with high school diplomas or less gained only 80,000 jobs.
Nearly all of the jobs created in the recovery have gone to workers with at least some higher education. For the first time in the history of the United States, workers with at least Bachelor鈥檚 degrees outnumber workers with high school diplomas or less. In addition, the types of jobs workers with Bachelor鈥檚 degrees access are considered better jobs with higher salaries, more stability, and employer benefits. Exceptions always exist, but workers with high school diplomas have lost more than 1 million high and middle-skill jobs since 2010 while adding 1.2 million low-skill jobs. Today, the average difference between a college and high school graduate鈥檚 lifetime wages is $1 million.1 (CEW)
Some have gone so far as to say the Master鈥檚 degree is the new Bachelor鈥檚 degree with one out of every three college graduates eventually earning a graduate degree. When students continue into graduate school to further their careers, they open up brand-new opportunities for management jobs and higher salaries. On average, workers with Master鈥檚 degrees make聽 28 percent more than workers without.2
Based on Median Earnings & Average Earning boosts from Master鈥檚 degrees over workers with terminal Bachelor鈥檚 degrees, from Georgetown University鈥檚 CEW 鈥淲hat鈥檚 it worth? 2016.鈥� Only major groups represented at HBU are listed.
REASON 2: Liberal Arts
REASON 3: Houston
REASON 4: Faith
Pew Research http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/02/11/6-key-findings-about-going-to-college/
CEW Reports: https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/whats-it-worth-the-economic-
value-of-college-majors/
https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/americas-divided-recovery/
聽Foot Notes
1. 鈥淎merica鈥檚 Divided Recovery: College Haves and Have-Nots 2016. Georgetown University Center on Education and the
Workforce. McCourt School of Public Policy. https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/americas-divided-recovery/#full-report
2. 鈥淲hat鈥檚 it worth?: The economic value of college majors.鈥� Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce.