Earnings and Repaying Loans

Another day of playing with data, this time looking at how Georgia colleges rank in terms of earnings and percent who repay loans. No surprise, the two lists are similar. In other words, the more graduates make from a school, the better that school's loan repayment numbers. But that's not always the case. Below I provide the Top 10 in Georgia by earnings and, in the column next to it, the ranking of that school in loan repayments. A few jump out at you. Mercer is 6th in earnings, but 20th in repayment. Spelman is 8th in cashola made, but paying 33rd in paying that cashola back. Same with Shorter (10th and 38th).

College or University	Rank in Earnings	Rank in Repayment
Georgia Tech	1	1
Emory	2	2
Southern Polytechnic	3	14
Creative Circus	4	10
Portfolio Center	5	6
Mercer	6	20
UGA	7	4
Spelman	8	33
Oglethorpe	9	16
Shorter	10	38