<<The researchers compared income of those who had college degrees and evidence of having actually with those who claimed to have degrees but for whom the college had no records of attendance, i.e. phony degrees. They also looked at income of of students who went to college and earned no degree. What they found was that the degree itself had no significant impact, but instead a strong correlation existed between income earned and years attended. In other words, someone who attended for four years and didn't get a degree could expect to make as much as someone who went four years and got the degree as well.>>
I can't help you with tracking this down, but when I was temping, this was the line of the temp agencies, too - that it was 'time served' :) that mattered more than degrees (I'm guessing that doesn't apply at the PhD level, though). It was a comfort to me because I had a bad habit of not completing graduate studies and have left two degrees unfinished :( Susan Hogarth Triangle Beagle Rescue of NC www.tribeagles.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]
