{"id":141,"date":"2011-10-25T22:56:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T03:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.juliandunn.net\/?p=141"},"modified":"2011-10-25T22:56:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T03:56:52","slug":"the-business-of-degrees-and-money-majors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/articles.juliandunn.net\/?p=141","title":{"rendered":"The Business of Degrees and Money Majors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cew.georgetown.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Georgetown University\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0Center on Education and the Workforce recently released a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cew.georgetown.edu\/whatsitworth\/\">study<\/a>\u00a0clearly showing, for the first time, the earning potential of certain majors versus others. Engineering, computers, and mathematics top the list of median earnings, although business degrees, at 25 percent of all degrees awarded, are the most popular.<\/p>\n<p>But Peter Thiel argues that college is completely pointless if you\u2019re interested in starting a new venture, and he\u2019s put money into the game.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/toiltown.com\/2011\/10\/25\/the-business-of-degrees-and-money-majors\/\">ToilTown<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgetown University\u2019s\u00a0Center on Education and the Workforce recently released a\u00a0study\u00a0clearly showing, for the first time, the earning potential of certain majors versus others. Engineering, computers, and mathematics top the list of median earnings, although business degrees, at 25 percent of all degrees awarded, are the most popular. But Peter Thiel argues that college is completely &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/articles.juliandunn.net\/?p=141\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interactive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/articles.juliandunn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/articles.juliandunn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/articles.juliandunn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articles.juliandunn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articles.juliandunn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/articles.juliandunn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/articles.juliandunn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articles.juliandunn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articles.juliandunn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}