{"125491":{"#nid":"125491","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Recognized Nationally for Return on Investment","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBloomberg\/Businessweek ranked Georgia Tech number two in the nation, and first in the state of Georgia, in annualized return on investment (ROI) based on the financial return graduates earn from their degree.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAccording to the survey results compiled by Payscale.com, Georgia Tech graduates receive, on average, a 14.9 percent return on their tuition investment over a 30-year period.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech was one of 24 schools whose graduates earned a net ROI in excess of $1 million over 30 years for their tuition investment. Among this group are CalTech, MIT, Stanford, Harvard and Duke. Tech is on the $1 million net ROI list twice, once for in-state tuition and once for out-of-state tuition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe return on investment was calculated for more than 850 schools. According to the methodology, the PayScale salary data is self-reported by individuals who use its online pay tools. For each school in the ranking, PayScale collected, on average, about 1,000 pay reports from alumni who graduated with a bachelor\u2019s degree from 1982 to 2011.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBloomberg\/Businessweek ranked Georgia Tech number two in the nation, and first in the state of Georgia, in annualized return on investment (ROI) based on the financial return graduates earn from their degree.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Bloomberg\/Businessweek ranked Georgia Tech number two in the nation in annualized return on investment based on the financial return graduates earn from their degree."}],"uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2012-04-20 16:55:31","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:04","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-04-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-04-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/interactive_reports\/colleges_return_on_investment.html","title":"Bloomberg\/Businessweek"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.payscale.com\/education\/compare-college-costs-and-ROI","title":"Payscale"}],"groups":[{"id":"1183","name":"Home"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"31211","name":"Affordability"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"366","name":"Graduate"},{"id":"13983","name":"Return on investment"},{"id":"168053","name":"Salary"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["mattnagel@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}