Study: Earnings of two-year tech grads top four-year students

Sorry all you graduates of prestigious four-years colleges, but there is a new study that shows students with a two-year technical certificate often earn more, sometimes nearly double those with a bachelor’s degree, in their first year in the labor market.

A comprehensive study of Texas colleges and universities provided to Secrets found that in some areas, two-year students earned $70,000 in their first year, $30,000 more than a student in the same field but who took four years to graduate. And even among two-year students, those with technical certificates earned significantly more than those with academic degrees.