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A 2-Year Master's Can Cost $200-320K in Tuition Plus Foregone Salary — And the Median Program Barely Breaks Even
Grad school is sold on the salary premium. Georgetown's data is unflinching about which programs actually deliver it: top-10 MBAs and CS/engineering/nursing master's clear the hurdle. Many general-purpose master's don't.
A Coding Bootcamp Grad Can Be $150K Ahead by Year 3 — But a Degree Often Overtakes by Year 15-20
Two paths optimizing different things: the bootcamp wins on time-to-income, the degree wins on ceiling. We checked exactly when a four-year degree's higher trajectory catches up to the bootcamp's early head start.
A Bachelor's Degree Earns $1.2-1.6M More Over a Career — But That Median Hides a 2-3x Spread by Major
BLS data shows the headline lifetime earnings premium. Georgetown's Center on Education and the Workforce shows the honest reading underneath: engineering and CS majors clear $80K+ lifetime medians while some other majors net less than skilled trades.
Saving $302/Month From a $5,000 Head Start Reaches a $100K College Fund in 15 Years at 6%
The education-fund math works backward from your target: instead of asking 'what will my savings grow to,' it solves the compound-interest formula for the monthly contribution that actually gets you there.