Colleges sell themselves by the numbers—rankings, returns on investments, and top-ten lists—but these often mislead prospective students. What numbers should they really be paying attention to?

Zachary Bleemer and co-authors’ new book Metrics That Matter explores popular metrics used by future and current college students, with chapters focusing on colleges’ return on investment, university rankings, average student debt, average wages by college major, and more. The authors draw on decades of scholarship from many academic fields to pair each metric with a concrete recommendation for alternative information, both qualitative and quantitative, that would be more useful and meaningful for students to consider.

This upcoming book talk is co-sponsored by the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE), Department of Economics, and Berkeley School of Education. This event will also be live streamed on YouTube. Link to follow.

Speaker: Zachary Bleemer, Princeton University