When you come out of school carrying six figures of debt into an economy where you will never afford a house and won’t pay off the debt until you are 50. An entry level job that requires 5 years experience and pays 35000 a year. Yeah. That checks out.
I've felt like this for over a decade. I don't even want to know what cost is now.
Damn that sucks. Here I am sitting at Uni only paying for the public transport ticket basically.
I feel so free to be able to do this.
Employers no longer universally take a college degree as a way to skip ahead in the line of employment. A college degree should basically be a ticket to any job within that degree field. In practice, that’s incredibly unlikely. I started at minimum wage with my first job out of college lmao. My second job netted me like 50¢ more.
Many college degrees (looking at you, biological sciences) don’t even have jobs available for fresh grads. When I graduated I was competing with thousands of others for like 5 jobs in the country. After my internship ran out I was never able to work in the field again.
Schools keep pushing those degrees though because it gives their professors a constant supply of free labor (interning in a lab is usually required to graduate).
same situation, but minus the interships. biotech, research almost next to no jobs in the field unless you have significant undergrad experience, and getting lab experience while undergrad seems very limited. and when i look at the people employed or in the labs, its almost dominated 1 demographic, which apparently has been given a leg up for years, hence why dominate the biology field(mostly around health).
its meant to be gatekeep for phd,and lesser extent masters
Because it should be more affordable
Why work hard and study to die poor? Work lazy and die happy
This can't be that shocking to the news media and "analysts". Kids have been practically railroaded into getting at least a BS for decades, a lot of the time to the tune of 10s of thousands of dollars in debt if not more. Now that nearly everyone entering the work place has one it is not the selling point to employers that it was once. Supply and demand and all that.
And that's before you even get into the usefulness of so much of the coursework in a lot of these degree programs. I only have an associates degree and probably half of the program was unrelated to the stated purpose of the degree. I can't imagine how much junk is required for a 4 year or more in the name of being a well rounded person.
Maybe, just maybe, everyone is starting to wake up to just how self serving the college industry has become.
No longer? I didn't see them as worth the cost fifteen years ago. That's why I emigrated back to my home country so I could study virtually for free.
Right on target! Keeping the masses uneducated is one of the main goals.
I think it depends pretty dramatically where you go. It might not be worth it if you go to a school that costs 40k a year. But college in general opens doors to a lot of positions.
Not to say college is the only viable option.
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