ABSTRACT
In previous chapters, I studied the variability in the effect of college quality across different groups of students. Like many previous studies exploring the effect of college quality on career outcomes of college graduates, the effect of college quality in previous chapters was evaluated as the earnings differences among graduates from different types of colleges. The strength of such a focus is partially due to the popular (mis)perception that greater economic rewards are the single most important outcome of graduating from college and partially due to the fact that employment and wage data are readily available in many national data bases of college graduates. Exclusive focus on the economic outcomes of college neglects a host of other outcomes, however. In this chapter and the next, I extend the study of the effects of college quality beyond the area of earnings differences. Specifically, I consider the effects of college quality on two outcome variables: graduate education and job satisfaction.
