I went back to school after working for 8 years after leaving high school.
I went to community college, transferred to UC Berkeley for my bachelors in Poli Sci, and in a year and a half, I’ll have my JD from a top-25 law school.
All told, I will have paid around $45,000 total in tuition. My undergraduate degree cost me nothing.
Attn op
Rutgers costs about 28,000 a year. Since you are a jerseyite
I figure you know this already.
Allan
Just giving more free education is not a logical approach and by no means will ensure higher salaries for all. For example it is stupid for all of society to pay for average students to sit in a classroom for 4 more years of their life to either drop out (I believe the college dropout rate is about 40%) or to take a useless major. I don’t want to pay for that it’s stupid.
Only certain majors do so, specifically any majors that offer students training on expensive high tech equipment.
Cratic here is the thread I mentioned in my response.
Here’s something to add to this:
“What’s happened is for a huge percentage of the degrees, the degree is worth less than than the job,” Horowitz continued. “So, basically we as a society are running a scam and ripping off a huge percentage of our young people who are going to college with the clear expectation that they’re going to get a higher quality job and they’ll be able to pay for college. That’s absolutely not the case and that’s the real issue.”
Horowitz added that with all of the recent advances in technology, including things like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and generative AI, technology that A16z invests in, a college education should cost much less.
“There is no knowledge that you can’t get from your smartphone very cheaply and easily," Horowitz said, "so why am I paying $300,000 for the credential?”
Necro gag
College does not a higher quality employee make.
No it does not:
High quality jobs should go to high quality people.
And as discussed employers are recognizing that US universities are not doing a good job at that:
Despite all of this, having a higher education is necessary to have a chance with all of the competition in the job market.
That’s why there are scholarships.
I agree, yet many job postings still start with a bachelor degree as a requirement.
They can’t. No education can turn a moron into a genius.
Give it time, the ship is turning to right itself.
Ok.
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That’s only because the education industrial complex was able to brainwash the public to accept the eight-year (high school/college) education model (or more years) as necessary for white-collar employment.
1 in 5 employers have had a recent college graduate bring a parent to a job interview
What?
58% say recent college graduates are unprepared for the workforce
That’s not a reasonable expectation in my opinion. Very short-sighted.
A college degree is not about the first 5 jobs.
