The tool will use the price–to–earnings premium metric developed by Michael Itzkowitz, a higher education researcher.

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The Western Association of Schools and Colleges Senior College and University Commission is expanding its dashboard to provide more details about the outcomes at institutions accredited by the organization, a move intended to provide clear data about student’s return on investment.

The Key Indicators Dashboard , dubbed KID, includes metrics on student debt, earnings and other measures to help understand institutional performance, including at the program level. Now the accreditor has added a new Price–to–Earnings Premium metric to the dashboard, which tracks how long it takes for graduates from different programs to recover educational costs.

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