What do you want to bet that graduates of the top (say top 15-20) schools have landed decent jobs?
It’s the middle of the road and (worse) diploma mill grads who have to worry about employment prospects and/or those who choose truly worthless majors (which reflects in itself a certain intelligence deficit).
What the article writer fails to mention is that the “top” private schools (or most of them) do, in fact, cover with grants (not loans) all financial need of admitted students.
RE: the “top” private schools (or most of them) do, in fact, cover with grants (not loans) all financial need of admitted students.
NYU’s tuition plus board is now close to $60,000/year.
A family earning a little over $100,000 a year will probably get $30,000 in grants.
They’ll still need another $30,000 to afford the school.
I would bet it depends a lot more on their major field of study than where they went to school.
It’s the middle of the road and (worse) diploma mill grads who have to worry about employment prospects
As if the Ivy's and other elite schools aren't diploma mills. The more likely reason is the networking opportunities available at elite schools, and not the quality of education received. Please don't tell me you think Michelle 0bama got a job as a "community affairs director" for $316,000 because of the quality of her work at Princeton. Or because she even graduated from Princeton, for that matter.
What the article writer fails to mention is that the “top” private schools (or most of them) do, in fact, cover with grants (not loans) all financial need of admitted students.
Really? Please tell me what those "top" schools are, because my kids with "top" SAT's and "top" grades at one of the highest ranked school districts in Pennsylvania could not find any private university that funded more than a nominal percentage.
The country is in sh!t-shape right now because our supposedly elite institutions are turning our worthless parasites [lawyers, bankers, politicians ...] while the "diploma mills" who produce most of our engineers, scientists and programmers [that is, people who actually work and support both the indolent upper and lower classes] are being deprecated.
I never have, and never would, hire an IT professional based on where he went to school. Never.