That’s mighty sad. Brrp.
If you’re stupid enough to go to college for other than a STEM degree and borrow for it, you deserve to lose.
If your tens of thousands of dollars in student debt and you can’t get a good job, or are two entitled to start t the bottom and work your way up; you weren’t educated, you were conned.
“Would you like fries with that?” — Yale ‘22
The 3 generation push for a degree at all costs, has resulted in just that.
It was still cheaper to send my child to UnG (university of north Georgia) even paying out of state tuition( at that time) than to hope she could get a lucky raffle number for nursing school in California
After working ten years in the field she had saved enough to do her masters and is in her dream job….family practice nurse practitioner
She and her husband have no student loan debt. Both have careers they love. They are doing well….living the American dream
Good - maybe the schools will re-think the proliferation of the “studies” degrees and get back to real education with degree programs that have real-world usage. The thing that would matter most would be removing the linkage to government guarantees. Good to read that students and parents are making better choices.
A college degree got my son a commission as an Air Force officer, but beyond that, it didn’t amount to much. 🤗
All you get now for your large amounts of money is indoctrination.
in the ‘80’s, i had one class left to satisfy the curriculum credits necessary for a BS in Avionics Technology. well, o and behold, during tje summer break the leadership decided to make that degree a FIVE YEAR curriculum.. at that point, all my CCAF, victor valley ccollege, san bbernardino comm ollege, and now dowling college work meant crap. i could not afford it anymore, either. i was not going to go into debt for that last year of school. they may just do it again next year!!
so, i just said PHOOEY, and i haven’t regretted it.
what?!? the degree in womens studies didn’t pay off?
IMAGINE THAT!!!!
enjoy paying your loans back you idiot!
You still can earn a bachelor’s degree with zero debt today, but most students aren’t willing to do what’s necessary:
OPTION 1: Earn a full scholarship.
OPTION 2: If you don’t qualify for Option 1, then work and pay-as-you-go, first with an associate degree from a community college, then transfer to a state university for junior and senior years and commute to class.
Option 2 might take a little longer, and you won’t live on campus, but you’ll earn a bachelor’s degree with no debt.
And who’s the dumbass that didn’t see this coming? Half the people in college getting diplomas shouldn’t be there. Too many new Degrees for Idiots going around out there. We’ve got pancake house waitresses on TV waving Ph.D degree diplomas and firing off their big mouths about everything. Trying to teach the new college students serious subjects is like trying to teach a chimpanzee to build a rocket.
in an age where it takes an AS degree to clean the restroom, a BS to jerk coffee, and a masters to run a coffee shop
What caring parent would want to send their children to an indoctrination camp.
Unbelievable...Harvard, Yale, Princeton...in the past a parent could only DREAM of sending their children to those Universities.
NOW, a parent would be a fool to even try to have their kids attend these Cesspools.
And here’s the best part...the tuition INCREASES. iMAGINE
how stupid a parent would have to be to send their precious child into that Snake Pits.
GREAT NEWS! Hang these pinkos out to dry!
Yeah, I guess being eighty grand in the hole with a masters degree in Interpretive Afro/Haitian Dance isn’t going to get you $400,000 a year and the corner office.
Be smarter. Learn plumbing.
Only kids from the top half of the high school class should be going for 4-year degrees.
Otherwise, it is just putting lipstick on a pig.
The world needs ditchdiggers too.
Read later.