Posted on 05/09/2013 6:50:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
your average grocery cashier checker being replaced by a computer is not going to get a degree in IA, but this is about kids who spent $80K on college just to be unemployable.
My 4 year degree cost me about 20k for 4 years and I walked into a job making 40k a year roughly the average for the field... Today a degree from that same institution would cost 80k and the average entry level salary for that field is now about 50k.
It doesn’t take a genious to figure out COLLEGE is overpriced, attended by a lot of folks who really should not be there.
I like your story... We need more parents not giving kids a free ride...
There are a lot of folks in college and have been for decades who had no business being there, they died it because it was “what you do” and it was on someone elses dime.
ANyone who has spent any time in or around a college campus can tell you lots of them really have no academic aspirations or knowledge of what they want to do with their lives, just doing it because its what you do.
I’d say during my college experience a full 80% of the students really had no business being in college, and in days gone by would have never been accepted to any serious academic system.
I have three kids entering into college in the fall. I am amazed that among state schools the difference in tuition. Mizzou is the costliest at about 9 grand and smaller state schools run about 5 grand. The second largest, Missouri State is about 6.5, but have very generous scholarships for gpa and ACT (Mizzou virtually has none). So, Mizzou is basically 2 times the second largest school.
The difference is Mizzou has a big football and basketball program. It also has well known journalism, law and medical schools. For my one kid going there, it has an excellent ROTC program. But for the majority of kids attending, is a football and basketball team worth an extra $16K to $18K a year...?
The main character, played by Matthew Modine, is a real slacker in medical school.
I’ll check out the movie. Just read the summary. Thank you.
I’ve dealt with a fair number of medical students and residents. The sloppy ones and the slackers turn out to be poor clinicians. They don’t have the self-discipline to be good. However, some of the non-conformists are excellent.
IT shouldn’t cost more for those things, those sorts of things usually MAKE money for the school, in terms of revenues, tv contracts, larger and more support from alumni etc. If they are blaming the athletics programs for the added cost they are probably lying to you.
Smaller schools running such things add cost, big schools having those things usually makes them money.
The "catch-all" majors for washouts at my school (a large state U) were business, and interestingly enough, education.
Nice to see a school spit out 400 teachers a year, 60 or 70-odd percent of which likely didn't particularly want to do it....they just ended up in it. Says plenty for our educational system.
>>A while ago, my plumber came to my house and fixed one of my toilets. He was here about 30 minutes and charged me 160 bucks.
And I went to 4 years of college.<<
Why didn’t you look on YouTube for a video and fix it yourself?
However, when I watched the guys humping 80# bundles of shingles up 12 or 15 or 20 feet of ladder, I thought, "they're earning their money."
I'd rather people get an MS in computer science with a specialty or minor in IA.
It's bad enough that students no longer get a universal education when they go to college. Most people treat universities as white-collar trade schools and focus most of their efforts just learning a trade.
To continue that at higher levels can only lead to narrowly trained people who are good at few things and can never quite see the big picture.
That large corporations are gullible enough to hire people with degrees in something so specialized is not a good sign either.
Not really. Pretty soon we’ll have robots digging ditches.
Thank you for your service to our country.
I'm seeing a doctor now that comes pretty close. So far I'm quite pleased.
If someone gets degrees in EE or CS their MS and then DS will be much more specialized then their Freshman undergrad year. That is the way it works.
I dont see someone getting a MS in IA unless they have a technical background first, an engineer or a computer network specialist,
Nor do I see IA being obsolete in our lifetime.
My experience getting my master’s degree reflects the article’s premise.
I took a class in social science research at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. It was a tedious helping of left-wing pap served up by a self-proclaimed Latina grandmother who, not surprisingly, graded on a curve, with women and minorities on the passing end and white men on the failing end. I looked at the $20,000 tuition fee for completing the degree and took my “incomplete” for the semester.
I found an online college for about one-third the cost. The classes were excellent. Political posturing was absent. I went in, learned a lot, came out with some interesting skills, and graduated in 18 months. It was all done at home - a plus when you live way out here - and there wasn’t a speck of time wasted.
I’m betting we’ll see much more of this in the near future.
Yeah, I’d draw the line there!
“It doesn’t take a genious to figure out COLLEGE is overpriced...”
“Genious”?? I’d ask for a refund if I were you :)
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