Friday, September 29, 2017

Top value colleges

PayScale Best Universities and Colleges by Salary Potential Early Career (0-5 years of experience) Pay, Mid-Career (10+ years of experience) Pay, % STEM degrees
1 Stanford, 23 Santa Clara, 25 Berkeley, 37 Rice, 39 Carnegie Mellon, 42 Tufts, 63 University of Southern California, 74 Johns Hopkins, 77 Vanderbilt, 79 UCLA, 82 Northwestern, 104 Rochester, 105 Case Western Reserve, 138 Barnard, 149 Oberlin

DoE College Scorecard with Visual and Performing Arts, Salary after attending, comparing schools
Stanford, CMU, USC, CWRU, JHU, SCU, Tufts, NWU, Vanderbilt, Rice, Berkeley, UCLA, Rochester, Oberlin, Barnard

Best Merit Scholarship:
CWRU, Oberlin, Rochester

Kiplinger's Best College Values Salary Yardstick, federal financial aid 10 years after starting college, non-need-based aid
Stanford 1% 14k, CMU 6% 12k, CWRU 59% 23k, USC 29% 20k, SCU 41% 14k, JHU 3% 39k, Tufts 2% 0.5k, Rice 17% 19k, Northwestern 7% 4k, Berkeley 9% 9k, Vanderbilt 21% 22k, UCLA 7% 5k, Barnard 0, Rochester 56% 14k, Oberlin 77% 14k

Time Money Best Colleges early career earnings (pay scale), build your own ranking (merit aid and academic scholarships, high-paying job), % who get merit grants
Stanford ?, CMU 4, SCU 27, Rice 11, Berkeley 6, JHU 2, CWRU 31, Tufts 1, Vanderbilt 11, Northwestern 5, USC 19, Rochester 31, UCLA 3, Barnard ?, Oberlin 37

Niche Best Colleges for Music Curtis, Juilliard, USC, NEC, Berklee, Vanderbilt, Rice, NWU, SFCM, Michigan, CIM, MSM, CMU, Rochester, NYU, Oberlin, Austin, JHU
Niche Best Value Colleges

Top 50 feeder schools to 15 selected graduate medical, law, business programs
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Williams, Duke, Dartmouth, MIT, Amherst, Swarthmore, Columbia, Brown, Pomona, Chicago, Wellesley, UPenn, Georgetown, Haverford, Bowdoin, Rice, Northwestern, Claremont McKenna, Middlebury, Johns Hopkins, Cornell

The 20 Most Prestigious Music Degree Programs in the World Juilliard, Curtis, Colburn, Berklee, Royal, Paris, Eastman Rochester, Yale, USC, Vienna, NEC, Jacobs Indiana, Oberlin, Moscow, MSM, Hanns Eisler, Sibelius, Guildhall, Mannes, Peabody JHU, CIM

The 20 Best Music Conservatories in the U.S. Juilliard, Curtis, MSM, Berklee, Mannes, NEC, Boston, CIM, SFCM, JHU, Rochester, Oberlin, AVA, Indiana, Bard, Colburn

Schools with Music Programs

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Buddist Temples

佛門寺 Buddha Gate Monastery Lafayette 中台禪寺 釋惟覺
中台山 太谷精社 Chung Tai Zen Center of Sunnyvale

法鼓山舊金山分會 Dharma Drum Mountain San Francisco Bay Area Center Chan Meditation Center in Fremont 聖嚴法師