**Data source:** CollegeNPV ROI estimates, which leverage Department of Education data to estimate the present value of degree programs taking into account graduation rates, expected income, debt obligations and contrasting it with the expected value of entering the workforce immediately out of high school. If interested, you can view my full rankings and more information on my methodology here: [View CollegeNPV ROI Rankings](https://www.collegenpv.com/)
The size of each rectangle represents the number of programs (larger rectangles are more popular fields of study), and color indicates the median ROI of programs ranked in the respective field.
**Tools:** D3.js & Powerpoint
Sociology and liberal arts?
No…..
Tho on a more serious note I’m surprises psychology is so bad.
Are the colors not backwards? For heat maps isn’t the higher number red (hot) and lower number blue (cold)?
It’s an absolute disgrace that teaching is that low.
Learning is developmentally the most important to us becoming useful adults.
Increasing spending on education is also raising their wages. Higher wages does get better talent. I’m sure there are incredibly talented people who wanted to teach who decided not to because of the pay.
Sorry for the rant.
How far this sub has fallen.
Question: Do the wages used for each category come from exclusively jobs requiring those degrees?
Such as “Econ degree majors can expect to get a 301k RoI if they work specifically in fields primarily requiring a Econ degree”
I ask because it seems to presume a teaching degree becomes a teacher, or a lit degree is a writer.
Wouldn’t these numbers skew dramatically from people not staying exclusively in their degree field their whole career? I mentioned teachers and literature, because those are fields I see people obtaining but not pursuing career wise a lot.
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**Interactive version here:** [Interactive Heatmap](https://www.collegenpv.com/collegeroiheatmap)
**Data source:** CollegeNPV ROI estimates, which leverage Department of Education data to estimate the present value of degree programs taking into account graduation rates, expected income, debt obligations and contrasting it with the expected value of entering the workforce immediately out of high school. If interested, you can view my full rankings and more information on my methodology here: [View CollegeNPV ROI Rankings](https://www.collegenpv.com/)
The size of each rectangle represents the number of programs (larger rectangles are more popular fields of study), and color indicates the median ROI of programs ranked in the respective field.
**Tools:** D3.js & Powerpoint
Sociology and liberal arts?
No…..
Tho on a more serious note I’m surprises psychology is so bad.
Are the colors not backwards? For heat maps isn’t the higher number red (hot) and lower number blue (cold)?
It’s an absolute disgrace that teaching is that low.
Learning is developmentally the most important to us becoming useful adults.
Increasing spending on education is also raising their wages. Higher wages does get better talent. I’m sure there are incredibly talented people who wanted to teach who decided not to because of the pay.
Sorry for the rant.
How far this sub has fallen.
Question: Do the wages used for each category come from exclusively jobs requiring those degrees?
Such as “Econ degree majors can expect to get a 301k RoI if they work specifically in fields primarily requiring a Econ degree”
I ask because it seems to presume a teaching degree becomes a teacher, or a lit degree is a writer.
Wouldn’t these numbers skew dramatically from people not staying exclusively in their degree field their whole career? I mentioned teachers and literature, because those are fields I see people obtaining but not pursuing career wise a lot.