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Why it really does pay to get a good degree: you earn more

14 February 2016

The study, Graduate Returns, Degree Class Premia and Higher Education Expansion in the UK, published by the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, finds that, five years after university, graduates who qualified with a 2:1 or higher can expect to earn 7%-9% more than their counterparts with inferior degrees.

This article was published in The Observer on February 14 2016
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Related Publications
'Graduate Returns, Degree Class Premia and Higher Education Expansion in the UK', Robin Naylor, Jeremy Smith and Shqiponja Telhaj, Centre for Economic Performance Discussion Paper No.1392, November 2015

Related Links
Shqiponja Telhaj webpage
Education and Skills Programme webpage

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