Yes but now they are smarter… and 100k+ in debt that will keep compounding and they will never pay off.
Education is good. The problem is when it is privatized and oversold.
People go to college for different reasons. Some examples include career tracks, pursuit of knowledge, etc. This subreddit has such a fixation on a degree… If someone doesn’t have a degree, they see only jobs that require degrees… If someone does have a degree.. they may/may not be working in a field directly related to their degree.
I’m not sure what we are to economically care about this information.
Hate to break it to people on Reddit, but a majority of jobs can be done without a degree. College is a scam brought to you via the government and the colleges to manipulate people into thinking your only going to make money by going to a 4 year when in fact most times a year or certificate will do as good if not better and your not going into debt.
But for some reason we want to make college even more accessible…
If anyone is paying attention to what is happening with College Athletics, it is obvious the whole system is broken. People actually paying to go to college are helping to subsidize paying athletes to come play for that college. Until people start pushing back, and going into careers that don’t require one, things will only get worse.
Also, many companies have tuition reimbursement programs. Go work for a big company, even if it is one of the lowest “level” jobs and get them to pay for your college if said company feels a degree is needed to be promoted. Work, make money, let the company pay for it and live debt free.
And only 46% of entering freshman finish a 4 year degree in 6 years. Not everyone needs to go to college.
Aye!
This is a problem where universities are not aligned with what the job market for graduate jobs on what they are looking for a young graduate should have at start. If a job is not in demand they should decrease the supply instead of collecting tuition (stop accepting so many computer scientists teaching them skills that is already over high supply). If the job is in demand, they should offer more internships with a high chance they can fail so it is relevant and they don’t coast it at the same time.
We’re turning into Europe minus the public transit, and social safety net.
Education became a business, then everyone needed a degree to sweep floors.
We could probably do away with a ton of degrees, and instead, utilize paid apprenticeship programs.
Don’t major in junk.
1) The majority of US universities admit students based on GPA and SAT scores rather than the strong EC in the major that the students are applying for, which reflects their true passion.
2) Less than 10 US universities have co-op program.
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Yes but now they are smarter… and 100k+ in debt that will keep compounding and they will never pay off.
Education is good. The problem is when it is privatized and oversold.
People go to college for different reasons. Some examples include career tracks, pursuit of knowledge, etc. This subreddit has such a fixation on a degree… If someone doesn’t have a degree, they see only jobs that require degrees… If someone does have a degree.. they may/may not be working in a field directly related to their degree.
I’m not sure what we are to economically care about this information.
Hate to break it to people on Reddit, but a majority of jobs can be done without a degree. College is a scam brought to you via the government and the colleges to manipulate people into thinking your only going to make money by going to a 4 year when in fact most times a year or certificate will do as good if not better and your not going into debt.
But for some reason we want to make college even more accessible…
If anyone is paying attention to what is happening with College Athletics, it is obvious the whole system is broken. People actually paying to go to college are helping to subsidize paying athletes to come play for that college. Until people start pushing back, and going into careers that don’t require one, things will only get worse.
Also, many companies have tuition reimbursement programs. Go work for a big company, even if it is one of the lowest “level” jobs and get them to pay for your college if said company feels a degree is needed to be promoted. Work, make money, let the company pay for it and live debt free.
And only 46% of entering freshman finish a 4 year degree in 6 years. Not everyone needs to go to college.
Aye!
This is a problem where universities are not aligned with what the job market for graduate jobs on what they are looking for a young graduate should have at start. If a job is not in demand they should decrease the supply instead of collecting tuition (stop accepting so many computer scientists teaching them skills that is already over high supply). If the job is in demand, they should offer more internships with a high chance they can fail so it is relevant and they don’t coast it at the same time.
We’re turning into Europe minus the public transit, and social safety net.
Education became a business, then everyone needed a degree to sweep floors.
We could probably do away with a ton of degrees, and instead, utilize paid apprenticeship programs.
Don’t major in junk.
1) The majority of US universities admit students based on GPA and SAT scores rather than the strong EC in the major that the students are applying for, which reflects their true passion.
2) Less than 10 US universities have co-op program.