This is a big issue. Many of them get degrees in cookie cutter majors without researching the earning potential or job potential of that degree. Colleges and universities have gotten rich from tuition/student loans, etc. It is a scam. They offer worthlesss degrees and will take anyone that can pay tuition.

The secondary system has pushed the idea of you are a failure if you do not get a four year degree for 30+ years. This has been a tragedy and an injustice. Refusal to promote/fund quality technical programs and using them as dumping grounds has really hurt. There are thousands of jobs in the technical areas now and the pay is often much better than they can earn with one if those worthless 4 year degrees.

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Posted by wackatimesthree

Member since Oct 2019

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Posted on 3/2/24 at 9:35 am to AU86

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It is a scam.

It is not a scam.

The college said, "We will teach you these things for this amount of money."

If the college taught the student what they said they would teach them, it's not a scam.

It's up to the student to determine the value of having the degree, not the college. There's no way the college can possibly determine that for the student.

When people call colleges "scams" it is reflective of how the culture of victimhood has prevailed and how entitled people have become to expect someone else to work their life out for them.

Populism at its finest.

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Posted by wackatimesthree

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Posted on 3/2/24 at 9:38 am to AU86

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There are thousands of jobs in the technical areas now and the pay is often much better than they can earn with one if those worthless 4 year degrees.

And if that market corrects by thousands of otherwise-would-be college students becoming trade school students, it will push the pay for those jobs back down.

Will trade schools be a scam then?

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