Most Gen Z graduates now think college was waste of money

https://www.newsweek.com/gen-z-graduates-college-poll-2064531

by stasi_a

19 comments

  1. Education is a waste of money until it isn’t.

    I didn’t make great money with my managment degree straight out of university.

    15 years in I make 7x what I made in my first career job out of university and I make way more than my non-degree friends.

    It took me nearly 10 years to catch up to my tradie friends.. now I double or triple them and it keeps going up every year.

  2. Depends on how you look at it. Educationally speaking, I can say it totally is a waste for what you actually get out of it. Its stressful af and over half of the information you’re taught likely won’t be retained past the first 2 weeks of the following semester (I’m in engineering, so there may be better retention in other degree paths). However, if you simply look at it as a means of job placement, its worth it in the long run.

  4. Bryan Caplan has a very good book about this. Its likely that what you studied is useless, but normally employers preferr you and you usually get a good ROI.

  7. It was a huge waste of time and money good on them for being self aware. Biggest waste of time and money in my life

  8. Studies show the more education a person has, the usually higher amount of career earnings they make.

  9. College is actually a waste of time for most people. Like college is supposed to be a place where you become thoroughly educated about something in particular. Not everybody needs to do that. The only reason people started doing that is because white collar companies started paying more for college degrees. That’s it. Not everybody needs to go to college.

  10. If you go to a top college and get a top degree it’s not a waste.

    If you go to a lower ranked college and get a degree that employers aren’t looking for, then yeah it can be a waste.

    But honestly what is the alternative? The system has been shaped so that you need a degree as a signal to employers… There aren’t really enough forms of non-college higher or vocational education to act as that signal if you don’t want to go to college.

  12. Then they should all just apply for jobs that don’t require a degree and see what they think after working those for a while.

  13. Learning to learn and similar things are much more important than accumulating various facts about a potential job. If you aren’t intellectually curious than you won’t get much out of it, but that is on you.

  14. Millennials said that… LEARN A TRADE. buy a duplex, an apartment complex, rent properties out. Don’t rely on your fancy degrees. Start NOW! invest in property!

  15. I smell bullshit.

    It’s a non scientific poll done by Indeed, a job hunting website. So yeah, bullshit.

    That said, there’s a multi-billion dollar anti-college push from the right wing and boomers just doomed us to a recession so they could pretend Ronald Reagan was still alive, so the numbers will be elevated.

    My kid has a college degree and they’re making twice what any of their non college grad peers are.

  16. Most Gen Z graduates in the US*

    Also, thinking that getting a university degree is a waste of money, really explains a lot about your current situation as a country. Depressing looking at many of the upvoted replies that basically just go “yeah lol it’s a waste of time”. Maybe if that wasn’t the attitude of so many of you, you wouldn’t be in a situation where your country is getting run by a moronic felon.

  17. This is all Trump’s fault.
    =

    The education system in America was perfect before Trump stole the elction from Harris by having Musk rig the voting machines.

  18. It is and it isn’t.

    If you have a chance to go to a state school which can still be heavily subsidized (depending on your state) and perhaps start with a 2 year CC and then transfer, you can pretty much go to school for free.

    There’s supplies, books, and a bit of opportunity costs. But like no one is putting a gun to anyone’s head and telling them to go to Yale if they wanna go to college.

    But there are better and more practical ways to make money, and some jobs are backing down from the “must have a bachelor’s” language in their job postings. That being said, it’s a fucking shitty job market out there.

  19. I think what people can’t articulate is that the job market has been very rapidly shifting in the last couple of decades and there’s not really a clear path to getting a solid future and universities are struggling with providing traditional services in light of a rapidly changing economy.

    Right now the best classes to take for ur major would realistically be “Posting your pussy on the internet 431” or “easy scams to get desperate people to buy your book or pyramid scheme 200”

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