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'So which is the most accurate assessment of what a university spends to educate a graduate? The catalog cost of $26,485, the transcript cost of $33,672, or the "full cost" $40,645? The last is "probably closer to an answer" to the question that policy makers are increasingly asking now, about "what would we have to spend to get more graduates," though that assumes that colleges maintained their current enrollment and expenditure levels, he notes. '

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By the Federal Reserve of St. Louis. "This web site was created to provide the public with useful information about major financial events and policy actions, both over the past months and going forward." Includes Timeline.

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Abstract of The Economics of New Faculty Hires in Basic Science from Adademic Medicine January 2009 - Volume 84 - Issue 1 - pp 26-31, doi: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3181904633

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