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What is college worth?


While data points to education after high school as the most powerful lever to increase socioeconomic mobility, costs continue to rise and student debt has reached record levels. Doubts about the value of postsecondary education are growing among Americans—does going to college lead to a rewarding career and a healthy, productive life?

In an effort to help demystify the value of postsecondary education, the Gates Foundation is partnering with the Institute for Higher Education Policy to launch the Commission on the Value of Postsecondary Education. The commission's goal is simple: propose a definition of value for education after high school and an approach for measuring that value.

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