Nearly Half of US College Graduates Working High-School Level Jobs, Survey Finds

Epoch Times ^ | 2/24/2024 | Patricia Tolson

[Paladin2]

College?

Define the learning/curriculum/standards at “College” these days....

[jeffersondem]

Question for the hive: How many recent (last 15 years) college graduates you know obtained a four-year degree in four years or less?

[Chgogal]

How many of these morons majored in Gender Studies or Women Studies or whatever the Poison Ivy and Left Wing Universities are pushing?

[Rummyfan]

Not surprising. What are you going to with a gender studies degree?!

[Parley Baer]

“Half of college graduates have high school level skills.”

Exactly. I bet most of those are short of high school level.

[elpadre]

Hwy, but those Spring Breaks in Miami and the Caribbean were special and paid for with my government loan - paid for the Ford Mustang too.

[Navy Patriot]

Nearly Half of US College Graduates Working High-School Level Jobs, Survey Finds

And they're unqualified for THOSE jobs.

[Freest Republican]

Colleges are what one makes out them.

The article is also what one makes out it.

My plumber retiring at 50yo not due to lavish pay but completely shot knees gets it.

[Eleutheria5]

Good. Do your post-grad at Hard Knocks. You’ll learn more valuable lessons, and un-learn some crap.

[LukeL]

Qualified for many jobs, but due to a physical deformity I never get past the first job interview.

[ridesthemiles]

CONSIDERING the quality of a high school/college today VS what was available in the early 60’s......

I am surprised they can hold down ANY jobs.

[Mogger]

Due to dumbing down, except for in technical fields, such as engineering, medicine, etc., a person with a bachelors degree has knowledge and less that what high school grad did 60 years ago.

A rural 5th grader in the mid 1800s had more knowledge about running a business than a business degree person today.

[WKUHilltopper]

Wow! So nobody needs a major in womens’ studies??

[Chode]

the real sad part is, some of these highschooler type jobs REQUIRE some kind of degree...

[Mark17]

52 percent of college graduates are underemployed a year after graduation.

My son graduated from Sac State, and was underemployed, but he found a solution. Now, he is an Air Force pilot. After he got his dollar ride, he knew that flying was in his blood. 👍

[NewHampshireDuo]

I was a coop student where I worked in a semiconductor facility. I went to work full time a week after graduation and during a downturn. I don’t think they ever looked at my transcript, they just knew I would be an asset.

[Elsie]

Nearly Half of US College Graduates Working High-School Level Jobs

Duh!

That's because colleges 'teach' so much stuff that ain't related to actually having a 'job' that CREATES something.

[Elsie]

Also, the other half of the half are NOT going to be working in their major within ten years.

[Iron Munro]

Perhaps because the quality of many college educations today is often less than a high school education of 2 or 3 generations back.

Today colleges are graduating students who cannot speak properly, make a fact based judgement, do basic math or write above a grade school level.

Michelle Obama’s illiterate senior thesis at Princeton University is a case in point.

[Rummyfan]

The only thing that qualifies you for is to teach women’s studies somewhere else.