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Ivy League,
Public, Private or No degree?
100
If a student needs $45,000 in aid, about how much endowment will be devoted to that purpose?
What is $1 Million Dollars.
100
Among common majors, education experienced the biggest drop in interest among undergrads. In a 10-year period, the number of students earning an education degree declined 5 percent.
True
100
What are the three categories of educational benefits of Higher Education?
What is Monetary, Social, and Health
100
From Troy Simon’s story what nonprofit organizations helped him get prepared again for college?
A group called College Track took him in, providing tutoring, test preparation, counseling and advice on applying to college. Then he won a Posse Foundation scholarship that paid for college and provided support services there.
100
Bill Gates
No degree, Net worth is $79.5 Billion Dollars.
200
What percentage of Yale graduates come from private school?
What is 45%.
200
The annual family income of more than 27 percent of undergraduates is less than $40,000.
False, he annual family income of more than 47% percent of undergraduates is less than $40,000.
200
Percent wise, how much does each degree earn more in money? Master's degree, Associate's degree, and a Doctoral degree?
What is Master's is 90% more, Doctoral is 2.6x more, and an Associate's degree is 27% more
200
What are the three beneficial categories of higher education?
Monetary, health, and social.
200
Rashida Jones
Yes, Harvard University. Net Worth is $10 Million Dollars.
300
On average per student, How much funding is given to public higher education institutions from the government, $15,622, $12,112, or $9,833?
In 2010, governments in the U.S. provided an average of $12,112 per student in funding to public higher education institutions
300
35% of students attend private nonprofit colleges and universities in the United States?
False, 16% of students attend private nonprofit colleges and universities in the United States.
300
What is the biggest health benefit of going to higher education/college for students? Is it lower rates of depression, mental illness, smoking, or drinking?
What is Smoking
300
Out of the 82 elite schools and colleges what percentages its students are from the lower income range?
Only 14% of students come from lower income.
300
Tommy Lee Jones
Yes, Harvard University. Net Worth is $85 Million Dollars.
400
What percentage of funding for U.S. higher education institutions came from public sources?
What is 36%. In Finland and Norway, 96% of higher education funding was public.
400
58% of students attend all types of public colleges and universities.
False, 73% of percent of students attend all types of public colleges and universities.
400
Is it true or false that employed mothers who don't have a four-year higher education degree and just a high school diploma actually tend to spend more on their children than employed mothers who have a four-year higher education degree?
What is False
400
Poorer students with good credentials mainly don’t apply to higher or private/elite universities because...(must guess 1 of three)
1.Lack of encouragement at home and at school 2.Thinking (correctly or not) that they cannot afford it 3.Believing they would be out of place, academically or socially.
400
Steven Spielberg
No degree, dropped out of California State University. Net Worth is $150 Million Dollars.
500
What is the national student debt, total?
What is over 1.2 trillion dollars.
500
Only 0.4 percent of undergraduates attend one of the Ivy League schools.
True
500
Among those with a high school diploma, what percent of adults reported understanding nothing or only a little about political issues?
What is 30%
500
Who published the first two articles we read for this week?
New York Times.
500
Bill Clinton
Private, Georgetown.
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