Starting salary...but minus the cost of the school.
What would happen to all those Liberal college professors if unqualified people stopped going to college just because it didn't make economic sense?
A girl from Duke does pornography to makes ends meet. And she says that it’s Duke’s fault that she does that, because they didn’t offer enough financial aid.
Seriously, families need to have hard discussions about this subject. There should be discussions about attending state universities vs. private colleges. There should be discussions about what they want to major in, and what the job prospects for those majors are.
For example, there is little demand for women’s studies majors in the job market. Studying women may be fascinating in some way, but, it won’t help you get a job. Same is true of the various ethnic studies programs.
My estimate is $100 per degree.
My to kids did OK. Of course that was 20 years ago and they went to Catholic schools and had a dad who was a genius and a mom who was a saint... They both make just short of $200K a year.
However, I think it had little to do with the college they went to...
If families start looking at this, maybe they’ll think twice about sending their kids to expensive colleges, if the major won’t recoup the cost of it.
If parents tell kids they aren’t going to pay for college, but the kids need to get loans, that THEY have to pay back, the kids will start looking closer to home, think about a couple of years of Community College, or at least work hard for scholarships.
Error in the first sentence. It says that your daughter will have to go into debt for college.
Uh, no. She will have to serve tables at Los Amigos and change adult diapers at Parkway Care Center until she can pay her way through.
It requires a change in thinking about debt; particularly college debt.
“Those types of questions are on the minds of countless college students.”
WRONG!!! Were that the case, most would not spend $100k for a teaching job, or a history degree, etc. The only way it makes sense is that mommy and daddy foot a good chunk, if not all, of the bill. That is of little risk/liability to junior.
Such as:
$100K/Engineering ... Design Engineer
or:
$100K/Middle Peruvian Studies ... Barista
Let’s apply tuition debt, towards institutional success in education. Currently it is a slavery caste system, by which- a social/political inductive mindset has been promoted. How about a critical thinking application/testing; where actual independent thought is recognized as worthy of a degree of education? Nah, that would be backwards/backwoods thinking- according to the last 60 yrs. of US Govt. edumacation.
I know a girl who went to school for 8 years to earn her PhD in History. She now works as a tour guide at the state historical society and she considers herself lucky to have found that job.
Bump for later - our nephew gets the news this Thursday online from the seven Ivies he’s applied to - we’re torn as to which will be worse - he gets turned down by them all or gets accepted by at least one - very probable - and has to figure our how to come up with the 80k per year it will cost to attend.....