From Michigan State University:
Thanks Captain Obvious!
Technically, they don’t get their parent’s money’s worth.
My son got his BSEE from Western Carolina University two years ago....
His cost was about $8K/year plus living expenses....
His current job started him at $93K plus a company truck....a fully loaded F-150 crew cab with leather air-conditioned seats....
He could have gone to Georgia Tech....but why?
The solution is to simply get the federal government out of education entirely. Our tax dollars are paying for leftist professors to bloviate about "big business."
The solution is to simply get the federal government out of education entirely. Our tax dollars are paying for leftist professors to bloviate about "big business."
Many colleges are practically free, especially in Canada and Europe. Then there’s apprenticeships, OJT, the military, non-traditional schooling, shadowing, start-ups, etc., etc...
Depends on what you get your degree in. An English literature or history or “women’s studies” major isn’t going to land you a high paying job. While a nursing or engineering or medical degree will pay pretty well.
It’s not 1940 anymore, Phyllis.
The worth of a college education depends upon the degree earned, the institution, and the diligence of the student.
Pick well, and it works out dandy, well worth the cost.
Speaking from experience, my own and my kids’.
From Michigan State University:
Every job I have had (except Army) has required a college degree. I have never said on my resume, interview or anywhere that I have a degree. It has never come up in an interview or employer related discussion.
As with most job Requirements, it is a bogus requirement that is only used to be a way to reject an applicant when the employer does not want to state the real reason for the rejection. (person is ugly, body odor, etc).
In the 1940s, the number of people with a college degree was quite low compared to the general population, hence, a college degree was a pretty good step toward a better income. Today, everybody and their brother has a sheet from Point-And-Click University and the economic worth is much lower.
Federal aid to education was “supposed” to reduce student debt. The opposite happened, but I don’t think the American people will ever figure it out. In fact, I suspect that tens of millions would say more federal aid to education is the answer!
Colleges and universities have become a money-making scam industry. It’s sad. Meanwhile, people who go to a trade school are often looked down upon by their peers and our nation has lost its manufacturing sector. Why? Personally I think it’s because the left wants as many kids on campus as possible for their indoctrination purposes.
My daughter goes to U.C. Berkeley, I am currently paying about $30,000 dollars a year for her UC education including tuition, books and housing.
While I am very proud of her, and consider Berkeley a great “institution”, I can tell you I am NOT getting my money’s worth. I follow her curriculim carefully, the returns in terms of jobs against value for the expense just doesn’t add up. Luckily because of her focus of study, she is not under the thumb of a lot of PC leftwing agendas, but there is a lot of discrimination against both whites as well as Asians in favor of blacks and Hispanics. I am paying huge amounts of money, which many cannot afford, that is more due to the greed of the Administrators and Professors who preach socialism and communism but live in the Berkeley hills and have lavish lifestyles and elite venues and are total hypocrites and who are largely responsible for such high tuitions. Money grabbing is their main interest thus they favor foreign students who pay double or even triple the already expensive costs to a UC education.
I have been very lucky in my investments so I can afford her education. But many cannot. Student loans are out of control and only perpetuate higher tuitions. These costs are much worse than the costs for healthcare and I hold the leftwing entirely responsible for such costs which inflate far out of purportion to actual living costs and actual inflation.
I would like to see a dramatic increase in internet based e-education and internet collaboration of faculty and students, accreditation of such schooling which should increase dramatically in available alternatives to UC type systems, the educators who teach at such schools could be global in nature, more options for technical, industrial and job specific education and not just universal education, etc.. Yes, the ability to cheat will be more obvious - but I don’t care about that as much as opening up many venues to be educated. In addition, education in this day and age of constant change is a life long process. Yot cannot just “sit on your laurels” anymore, you have to constantly educate yourself - and I don’t mean in terms of being over stressed and over tested, nor wish to see the competitive demand to be more difficult in rigor. We do not need to make things more difficult, in fact we probably need to make it less so but a constant part of life’s agenda to continually learn during one’s life. Thus, not to “cram” everything into a couple of years, but a more comprehensive approach spread out over decades.
For what it’s worth, IMO.
HOORAY Phyllis Schlafly. Debt U. - where intellectual, philosophical and economic bankruptcy meet.
They get 4 years of daycare w/sex and alcohol. What could be better?
Solution:
Make the college or university endowment funds
co-sign the student loans.
As it now stands there is no cost control but
subtle pressure to increase the fees.
(Sounds like pricing in medical care as Gumment
got involved).