Will College Pay Off?, Peter Cappelli
Will College Pay Off?, Peter Cappelli
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Will College Pay Off?
A Guide to the Most Important Financial Decision You'll Ever Make

Author: Peter Cappelli

Narrator: Tom Perkins

Unabridged: 6 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/09/2015

Synopsis

The decision of whether to go to college, or where, is hampered by poor information and inadequate understanding of the financial risk involved. Adding to the confusion, the same degree can cost dramatically different amounts for different people. A barrage of advertising offers us new degrees designed to lead to specific jobs, but we see no information on whether graduates ever get those jobs.

In Will College Pay Off?, Peter Cappelli, an acclaimed expert in employment trends, the workforce, and education, provides hard evidence that counters conventional wisdom and helps us make cost-effective choices. Among the issues Cappelli analyzes are:

What the real link is between a college degree and a job that enables you to pay off the cost of college

Why the most expensive colleges may actually be the cheapest in the long run

How parents and students can find out what different colleges actually deliver to students and whether it is something that employers really want
Insightful and informative, Will College Pay Off? helps students and parents make smart financial decisions and provides the foundation for students to succeed in the real world.

About Peter Cappelli

Peter Cappelli is the George W. Taylor Professor of Management at the Wharton School and the director of Wharton's Center for Human Resources. Peter is the author of several books, including Why Good People Can't Get Jobs, and his work has been featured and reviewed in Time magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker, the Atlantic, and the Harvard Business Review.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bryan on October 05, 2015

A very useful, hard-headed, and focused book, Will College Pay Off? covers exactly what that title promises. Peter Cappelli looks deeply into higher education as an economic proposition for would-be students. As such, this should be handy for a lot of people, at least in the United States. The answer......more

Goodreads review by Amy on December 07, 2015

At heart I am still secretly a higher ed dork. I don't follow the field as obsessively as I once did, but in a past life I was reading everything I could about who goes to college, how they get there, and what happens once they leave. In part, this book scratched that itch with lots of data and stori......more

Goodreads review by Paula on August 29, 2019

It's been a while since I read this book - here's what I came away with: Good tip about not going TOO FAR down the practical path and choosing a degree that is too specialized - you can dig yourself into a hole. I retained the example of 'casino management degree' - if there is a surplus of jobs in......more

Goodreads review by Derek on April 29, 2023

Although a bit dated now, the book provides an excellent overview of complex, surprising, and sometimes contradictory research about the value of a college degree.......more

Goodreads review by Dale on April 16, 2022

Decent book on a difficult subject. It is pre Covid and written not too long after the financial crisis, so some material is dated. This especially goes for his discussions on the labor market.......more

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