If you get z BS in “gender studies” from Oberlin and are not a minority, you will not need your degree working at Fridays, even though it cost you $240,000.
On the other hand, if you get a degree in engineering from MIT, it will likely pay off.
It’s all worth it as long as you’re employed.
Yes, absolutely.
But America needs to protect jobs for Americans.
A college degree is nowhere as valuable as it once was, and much much more expensive.
What is needed is more jobs in America (Trump has that part) and then we will return to the lead.
Buying everything from China helps nobody. Except for the people who have sold out America for their own gain.
Buy American.
For some jobs it is a requirement. Also at one time it paid off by several times the cost.
I am not so sure anymore.
I went to college on an athletic scholarship plus had a college job working the switchboard at night until 10. I actually made a little money after expenses.
I much later returned and finished grad school. That was a disaster for me financially. I spent all my savings, ended up drawing out my retirement and then became disabled before I could find a job.
For most people now, I don’t think it is worth it.
It was worth it for Mrs Gamecock and myself.
It is worth it for our oldest daughter.
Jury is still out for our youngest as they are still in school.
No, mostly college is not worth it. But America doesn’t seem to be working on a viable alternative. It’s an industry, a slick one. A few come out ahead. Most don’t.
Industries that insist on the piece of paper are misguided and are hurting the country. Insist on some aptitude and hard work and quick learning.
There are exceptions but they remain exceptions.
Finishing a college degree is worth it, but you get much better ROI if you do the first two years at community college.
VMI.
Grad from the Isenberg,
UMass Amherst. 5/2/16.
We paid state tuition for him. Big Donuts, good job, by 5/8/16.
Depends on where ya go, and what ya do!
College isn’t the end all-be all. Liberals have this idea that a college education is the key to success, and it can be. But liberals want to send EVERYONE to college, and not everyone is suited to college, and not all college educations are worth it.
Everything liberals touch turns to crap, and college is no different.
Like everything, college is what you make of it, and what you get out of it.
If you take Black Studies, Native American Studies, Women’s Studies, or Philosophy, well...good luck with that. I hope you have good bartending skills, because you are going to need them.
If you are suited to science, great. People with talent in many of those fields can get good jobs, but as we all know, you have to get the timing right. It does no good to pick a really good and interesting field if the job market is completely glutted with that field.
And in many cases, people stupidly pay outrageous tuition to go to an ivy league or other high end institution, but in the end, it is going to be a piece of paper you walk away with. Go to a smaller school near home. Commute to school if you can. Don’t graduate with a mountain of debt, even though it looks like the liberals are going go use debt forgiveness as a way to get everyone, no matter how unqualified or unprepared, a college education.
There are a LOT of people who will be far, FAR more successful in a trade. Funny, I have never known plumbers who had trouble putting food on the table or a car in the garage. Being a mechanic usually means you will always be able to support yourself and your family. Electricians, welders, machinists, there are plenty of things that are far, FAR more useful to the right kind of person than a college education can be.
It is all what you make of it.
Heck yes! Best 4 years of my life. Go Seminmoles! Right out of the chute with my degree in Poly Sci I got a job as an undercover security guard with JB Hunter Dept store. The base salary was $1.50 an hour but the supervisor told me since I had a college degree I was getting $1.80. Good times. :-)
Doctors should probably have advanced degrees. Journalists probably shouldn’t. Start there.
In my opinion (not worth much), college isn't worth it for half the kids who go to college. You're better off going to a community college on the cheap, and hitting the work force. For half the kids who go, they try to learn something and as a result become successful, so they don't need to ask the question nor wait for an answer.
It depends on which recent decade you got the degree.
Student loans are not washed away by bankruptcy, the college KNOWS that lib art degrees provide little of value unless a kid goes to law or biz school, but even that is not the ticket it once was:
The risk the kids face with such degrees is infinite but the schools face ZERO risk —the debt will be paid or will NEVER go away. In fact with interest the schools WANT them paid off late and often have instititional relationships with the collection agencies:
Far from making sure kids AVOID becoming slaves to companies, the schools THEMSELVES are performing the enslavement.
“Broaden your horizons..” blah, blah, blah.
The Left is deliberately misleading credulous young people, playing the evil role they always SAID would be played by Evil Corporationsssssss...
A liberal education and a liberal professor are different things.
A good liberal arts education helps a diligent student learn how to think for himself or herself through an understanding of logic, grammar, rhetoric.
A college education is what you make of it.
Anyone interested in reading about what they may have missed: “The Trivium” by Sister Miriam Joseph. Believe it was taught in a good Catholic high school. (Writer Mark Steyn had a good secondary education w/ no need for college.)
You can save yourself four years and thousands of dollars.
Trade school is worth it.