{"pk":65414,"title":"GRADES VS UNIVERSITY PRESTIGE? A STUDY ON THE RETURNS TO EDUCATION","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This is a study determining which factor is a stronger return to education in a post-undergraduate setting: Grade Point Average (GPA) or the perceived “prestige” of the University attended. To classify what is considered “prestigious” and non- “prestigious”, I used rankings from the \nU.S News Best Colleges Rankings\n to classify the University of California campuses onto two separate tiers based on these rankings. I implement a survey on Amazon Mechanical Turk, in which subjects are asked whether they would prefer to hire a job candidate with a higher GPA from a lower tier university versus a job candidate with a lower GPA from a higher tier university. Using this survey data, I find that subjects have a strong preference for candidates with higher GPA. This preference still holds when including respondents that have hiring experience. The implications are that individuals will re-evaluate their preferences when applying to a university.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"Returns to Education"},{"word":"GPA"},{"word":"University Prestige"}],"section":"Social Sciences","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3cs362gx","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Jose","middle_name":"A.","last_name":"Rosa","name_suffix":"","institution":"UC Merced","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2020-08-22T03:43:29Z","date_accepted":"2020-08-22T03:43:29Z","date_published":"2020-11-19T03:54:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ucm_mwp_ucmurj/article/65414/galley/50102/download/"}]}