Posted on 02/08/2011 8:33:30 AM PST by Academiadotorg
College students may not face brighter job prospects after graduation but they feel better about themselves. Through a recent social media study of Facebook, Twitter, and message board posts and comments regarding New Years resolutions, CUnet, a leading provider of performance marketing solutions for the higher education sector, found users to be optimistic toward completing or pursuing higher education goals, according to PR Newswire. Using CUnets social media analysis tools, the study looked at 1,093 resolutions about higher education that were posted between December 25 and January 8 to gain a better understanding of the attitudes and concerns of students.
Overall, nearly two-thirds of the posts were positive, referencing happiness (27.63%), excitement (3.02%), and cant wait (1.65%) more so than hate (3.39%), sadness (1.01%), nervousness (.55%), or depression (.09%). The negative posts mostly stemmed from issues with work/life balance.CUnet Social Media Analyst Jeff Berg also narrowed down the results to the most popular degree fields, which included:
* 25% in healthcare, a majority of which specified nursing; * 16.4% in criminal justice, mostly as police officers; * 14.5% in massage therapy.
Malcolm A. Kline is the Executive Director of Accuracy in Academia.
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The purpose of the American "education" system is to to ensure that students have high self-esteem for no apparent reason.
Start looking at the clinical depression/suicide stats for recent college grads. I'm guessing that the INTEREST on a loan like this is somewhere around $9,000 a year! Self-esteem? Insanity sounds more like it.
College students may not face brighter job prospects after graduation but they feel better about themselves.
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