Bradley P. Moss
@BradMossEsq
No offense but if I was a college student right now at Harvard I would leave for a year and do some coursework at a local state school and save money.
” I would leave for a year and do some coursework at a local state school and save money.”
Having a degree from an ivy league school is normally a pass to print money. Harvard will not accept or transfer hours gained at some other, cheaper university. You would have to retake those courses at Harvard to get credit towards graduation from Harvard. (This is true for most schools regarding courses taken at other schools.)
I think that a college degree is simply not worth it anymore. Schools will not flunk out failing students. They simply pass them. (I witnessed this directly as the hiring manager who then called a teacher who had passed a “student of color” who had no knowledge whatsoever about the subject.)
If you want a particular job, say Program Manager or Quality Engineer, you must join a professional organization who will then test you and certify you in that profession. You must then take/pay-for continuing credit hours for your entire career to maintain that certification. These courses are not cheap, so, yes, it’s a moneymaker for the organization. A college degree is no longer acceptable without independent verification by a society specific to that job type. This is because of the low quality of some college graduates.