Perceived Importance of College Hits Record Low
No surprises here for anyone. The scam of higher education is well known.
Link: https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/perceived-importance-college-hits-record-low
Replies to: Perceived Importance of College Hits Record Low
It’s one thing to take out $25k in loans for a degree, entirely different at $250k
Especially if the average job that you can get pays max $70k
I think it's too pricey in some parts of the country, UC in state cost is over 40k a year for
the average family that won't qualify for need based aid
This from a long time, original member of a University Forum…seems a bit in-consistent…
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What if I were an economics major?
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Then you need some remedial college classes...looking at your chart, 75% of Americans believe that a
College Degree is Very or Somewhat Important...and that trend has been increasing for the "Somewhat Important" group. Using Critical Thinking skills, you'd know that somewhere in the range of 35-38% of Americans Don't have a college degree and quite probably don't have the wherewithal to afford such a career advancing degree, thus losing interest. That's a shame which I believe has been brought on by increasing Wealth Inequality...but that's for another day/thread.
Expanding further, the rapid advancement of AI is going to put stress on those who want to use their minds more than their hands...so that could color the situation on future studies...just saying.
College isn't for Everyone...and it needs to be communicated throughout our educational system that success can be realized, even financially, with a Trade career. A classmate of mine in H.S. went into the Plumbing business and before too long had a summer home on Nantucket Island.
The government trying to solve "wealth inequality" was what drove up the cost of education
Colleges have no reason to make their services of reasonable price because the government is in the student loan business, i.e., there is never any reason to do anything but jack the price sky-high. And this is exactly what colleges do -- even though there is absolutely no good reason for these cost increases.
Unless you have a scholarship or go into a major that is of actual use, e.g., STEM, there's good reason to be very leery of the real value of a college education. No one wants to pay thousands for their own indoctrination and debt enslavement.
What do you do for a living? Do you have a degree?
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Nth degree - DJT loves the “uneducated”
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Wasn't it an "educated" person who killed a debater?
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