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With tuition rising and benefits murkier, is the MBA a thing of the past? Not yet, say satisfied Carlson School of Management and Opus College of Business grads

By Ashley Williams, TC Daily Planet

Photo via Opus College of Business Facebook page

According to the New York Times, college graduates last year had about $24,000 in student loan debt. The current University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management MBA program—ranked by Business Week third most selective in the nation—costs just over $30,000 per year for the full-time program. Is it worth it?

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Post-college life in the Twin Cities: Pinching pennies like in the 1970s, but now with more student debt

By Ashley Williams, TC Daily Planet

Photo by Jay Gabler

“Jobs weren’t hard to get when I finished school," says Bobbi Miller-Rosenow, who graduated from college in the 1970s. "We also didn’t have a lot of student loans." Even so, money hardly grew on trees. "Mortgage rates were up to 20% and gasoline was selling for more than $1.00 per gallon." What did she and her friends do for fun? "We would go out to the hotel bars off of 494, ‘the strip,’ with two or three friends for dancing.“

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