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These U.S. Colleges and Majors Are the Biggest Waste of Money

March 27, 2014 By Kathy Shaidle

Nice to see The Atlantic catching up with the rest of us!

Here are the eleven schools in PayScale’s data with a 20-year net return worse than negative-$30,000. In other words: these are the schools where PayScale determined that not going to college is at least $30,000 more valuable than taking the time to pay for and graduate from one of these schools.

It gets worse. The self-reported earnings of art majors from Murray State are so low that after two decades, a typical high school grad will have out-earned them by nearly $200,000.

 

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