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Posted on 07/18/2026 8:11:21 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Hundreds of California college programs are facing renewed scrutiny after federal data revealed that many graduates earn less than those with only a high school diploma, placing these schools at risk of losing federal student loan access unless their outcomes improve.
A new federal requirement that took effect this month requires colleges, universities and certificate programs to prove graduates earn at least as much as the median worker in their state with only a high school diploma.
In California, that benchmark is about $18 an hour, or roughly $36,000 a year.
An analysis by Michael Itzkowitz — president of the HEA Group — found about 90% of nearly 3,000 California higher education programs met that standard.
Yet about 300 programs missed the mark, with many concentrated in fields such as cosmetology, medical assisting, theater, and fine arts.
If these programs continue to fall short of the earnings benchmark, students could lose access to federal loans as early as July 1, 2028. Schools, however, still have at least two years to boost graduate earnings.
Many of the underperforming programs are run by for-profit colleges, institutions that have already been under the microscope for years over concerns of student outcomes and high tuition costs.
Public institutions also made the list, with theater and fine arts programs at eight California State University campuses and three University of California campuses coming under fire.
Over 30 California programs in fine arts, music, theater, film, and photography failed to pass the new earnings test.
By comparison, about 100 similar programs cleared the federal bar, such as UC Berkeley’s film program and fine arts programs at San Diego City College and the University of Southern California, where graduates reported earning over $70,000 four years after graduation.
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They should use the language of the left in these circumstances. They are predatory degree programs run by greedy professors and colleges.
Instead of creating a requirement for colleges, it would be far wiser and more effective to accurately and adequately council, advise and educate students about the real world and the earning potential of various careers.
It would be far more cost effective to hire advisors than it would be to hire “watchdogs” to study, recommend, and evaluate programs.
Student success (or lack thereof) is hard to fake, curriculum evaluators can be bribed…
It seems like the left turns everything into just a hang out feel good social group, college, the military, the corporate office, the basic workplace, everything becomes a place that the average female enjoys being in, it becomes pleasant and undemanding, and never crushingly challenging and brutally competitive, everything moves downward in standards, it starts slowing down and becoming more welcoming to mediocrity and average.
Cosmetology is a 4 year degree? I thought the discussion about eliminating programs that went on here the other day was about liberal arts -type degrees where a 4 year time-frame is unrealistic.
That’s the sad truth.
Time to go after “Big Education”.
Here’s how it should be:
Naive freshman: I want to major in Medieval French Poetry.
Advisor: That’s a worthless degree. I urge you to pick something else.
Here’s how it is:
Naive freshman: I want to major in Medieval French Poetry.
Advisor: Sign right here.
My husband spent his entire career as a high school college counselor fighting some of these for-profit “colleges” - that promised degrees and great JOBS - that never materialized -while the students had to take out student loans.
He always said these “colleges” charge students tens of thousands of dollars - for which they’d take out loans - for $10/hour jobs.
He was a huge believer in the trades, coming from a blue collar family - and seeing how much we were charged by plumbers and electricians, something students could learn for free or low cost at a trade school.
Pronto.
I have to insert here than work is about more than just making money. I have two sons. My oldest is extraordinarily bright, went to MIT and now has a great job at a biotech. He met his wife at the company - she is also a college grad -and together they have a great life.
My younger son never liked school, never took a single college class, but found a great job running a small business. He actually makes more than my older son and his wife combined.
Here’s the big difference: my older son is mentally engaged in his job. It provides him far more “job satisfaction” than the money alone, and he feels that he is accomplishing something significant.
My younger son’s work is 100% transactional. There is little satisfaction beyond the paycheck. He has some customers that he genuinely likes, and many that he merely tolerates. His work does not make him happy.
We should never think that money is the only reward from a job, or think it is the only measure of success for an education.
End all government student loans. Government pisses away money like candy without regard for cost/benefit. The ridiculous push to make everybody go to college resulted in this mess.
If you want to go to college, do it on your own. My dad was smart back in the 40s. He worked in a copper mine drilling blasting holes during the summer, but, during the school year, he was a food server in a sorority! Smart guy, my dad!
Maybe 20 years ago there was a school in my state called “The Broadcaster’s School”, or something like that. The school advertised heavily on TV.
They promised to make you fully-qualified for radio and TV broadcasting work. I knew a guy who fell for it, as he wanted to be a sports broadcaster. He took out loans to pay the tuition.
Of course he never did get a broadcasting job. And I’d be surprised if even one of the graduates did.
You’ve got to do your own due diligence. But, hell. That school was darn near a criminal operation in my opinion.
There are only so many jobs for that doctorate in “Bikini inspection”
Four year program in cosmetology sounds like a racket if such exists.
Something that likely skews the income results: Hair-stylists, manicurist/pedicurists, makeup artists, etc. likely receive a goodly portion of their fees and tips in cash. Gee, maybe all of it doesn’t get reported...
Make the colleges be co-signers on student loans.
There are large swaths of the U.S. that would look like a Mad Max no-go zone if not for the only employers to channel money through; taxpayer-funded grammar schools and high schools, possibly a regional hospital, and possibly a college.
Someone's got to keep the landlords, car loan and mortgage financiers, and medical industry in business.
The government also gains when students get useless degrees because those graduates are likely to end up being teachers which are needed to continue the cycle of forcing taxpayers to subsidize non-viable areas.
The US education system at all levels, both public and private, has been deliberately sabotaged.
“ Cosmetology is a 4 year degree?”
2 year vo-tech degree. Just like electronics, HVAC, welding, etc.
That makes sense, maybe that’s why people go in for the training
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