OSU ranked among top schools by new indicator
Monday, March 21, 2016
Oklahoma State University ranks in the top 20 percent of schools nationwide where the average starting salary for graduates is high enough to justify the investment, according to the 2016 College Risk-Reward Indicator study.
The analysis, recently released by LendEDU, a network of student loan refinance lenders, compares the average student loan debt at each of the more than 1,000 colleges in the study to the average salary its graduates can expect when starting their career. The study ranked OSU as the 161st best risk-reward out of the 1,004 U.S. colleges included in the study.
“We encourage students and families to consider the risk-reward of attending a particular college before making their decision,” said Tom Flynn with LendEDU. “If we are going to solve the $1.2 trillion student loan crisis, students, families, and the institutions themselves need to treat higher education as an investment, and not a gamble.”
According to the lenders’ network, members of the class of 2016 will graduate with an average student debt of $30,000. There are now more than 42.5 million Americans with student loan debt.