South Dakota School of Mines Grads Earning More Than Harvard Graduates

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It's not often I can "beat" CarpeDiem.com to a link to a story, but maybe this time I have. We'll see.

Harvard University's graduates are earning less than those from the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology after a decade-long commodity bull market created shortages of workers as well as minerals. 

Those leaving the [South Dakota] college of 2,300 students this year got paid a median salary of $56,700, according to PayScale Inc., which tracks employee compensation data from surveys. At Harvard, where tuition fees are almost four times higher, they got $54,100. 

Those scheduled to leave the campus in Rapid City, South Dakota, in May are already getting offers, at a time when about one in 10 recent U.S. college graduates is out of work.

An incredible story. Something tells me most of those graduates don't  have far to travel to take their first job: north to the Bakken, south to the Eagle Ford, with the Permian and the Mississippi Lime in between.

If CarpeDiem.com links this story, also, I will post the link.