if it's a (hard)science degree, it is, if it's a social science degree, prolly not so much...Unfortunately, College is excessively expensive. It is “big business.”
Local accredited community colleges and smaller universities can offer degrees for A LOT less money than the huge institutions. Plus the smaller colleges don’t have the facilities for dorms — a huge expense. So they can’t demand that students live on campus. Plus the added distractions of the “campus life” are much less. After all, the function of higher education is to learn.
Thanks SeekAndFind.
Student loans are a scam —there are no consumer protection laws on them, and if you find yourself a sociology PhD with no way to earn money, bankruptcy won’t wipe them out —there’s no relief.
It’s fine that fools should suffer, but hey, the system is set up to enslave students and prop up liberal arts profs who have nothing to offer the private sector.
They say the default rate on such loans is myabe 5% but that’s wrong —it’s like 40%. They’re keeping it quite so that all sorts of people who shoud not be in college are kept there, paying and keeping the system rolling.
After the dollar crashes I think everyone at leading Universities will be from China. The system will be as healthy as ever —it will simply have changed hands.
Since the leftist ‘academics’ have taken charge, colleges primary goal is turning out brainwashed kids without marketable skills. They preach social justice but have no problem extracting hundreds of thousands of dollars from students. That afterall, benefits them, which is their real agenda.
A huge part of college teaching is that companies underpay their workers and give paltry benefits, but just look at what they pay T.A.’s.
Greed in business? Online courses often cost more than their in-person equivalents, while costing considerably less.
The University system is greedy, and enslaves KIDS.
A prof mark you down or harass you, simply because you’re conservative? You have no legal recourse.
College is useless nowadays and only pushes the left wing agenda. You don’t need a degree to succeed in life you need common sense and hard work.
Oh it’s priceless because it makes you a superior human being. Just ask anyone who has one.
Two areas a college education should include:
How to start a business and how to obtain government grants and tax breaks.
if it's a (hard)science degree, it is, if it's a social science degree, prolly not so much...For some corporate jobs, the college degree is the broomstick of the Wicked Witch. It doesn’t matter how you got it, but you’d better have it. In these cases, get it cheaply.
For some important jobs, like engineering, sciences, law, it may well matter where you studied, how well you did, and spending more may count.
If you don’t have a clue what you want to do with your life, unless there is a ton of money sitting around for your college, don’t go, until you have a reason to go.
If your interests lie in a field of study where there is not much money ever to be made, go and study to your heart’s content, but take no student loans to do it.
Student loans should be avoided for all but those who will start their careers with a fairly high salary.
Many people would do far better to find someone doing what you want to do and work (even as an unpaid internship) for them. Even at the bottom, sweeping ro fetching coffee. This works for a lot of jobs but not all.
After service in WWII I went 2 years to a very good Jr. College for fees (not books or room and board) of about $200.00 a year. I then transferred to world renowned, and particularly in my field, university for something like $415.00 a semester, sans books and board and room, as an out of state student. This was a tremendous education for the cost and has served me very satisfactory over the years. I realize that increasing costs and dollar value play into increasing costs of education but I believe it is as much unnecessary ballooning and plain financial machinations that have caused so much increase in educational costs.
If done right, a university education is good for everyone. The problem is that the universities are doing such a horrible job. As with many parts of our society, there is no accountability in the universities. Separate research from instruction. There are not very many good instructors at the universities. Instructors are responsible for teaching students. The test scores should reflect on the instructors, too. And it’s the instructor’s job to make the class relevant. If I want to learn trivia, I can watch Jeopardy. Alex doesn’t charge me $1,000 to watch him.