With good salaries and reasonable student loan debt, there’s no new-graduate crisis

By William Watson. University degrees pay off for students – most of them female – and the debt levels aren’t worrisome.
When do you suppose universities will change the name of the first degree they offer from “bachelor’s” to “bachelorette’s”? Statistics Canada’s National Graduates Survey, which every so often catches up on recent university graduates, is out this week and it shows that 61% of the 196,700 (generally) young people who got a bachelor’s degree in 2010 were female. More...