re: Angry Graduate Just Wrote This Letter To His University.

it isn't his entire problem, but if the costs of education were more appropriately aligned then people could have had the same options as the did in the past.

In other words, as a young students for the most part you listen to your parents and advisers who went through school at a time when you actually could just go and get a degree for the most part and find a good job, often not even in your direct field, with just the paper that says graduate.

However today, due to the costs of education to the student which are rising at a level not commensurate with the costs of the universities to provide said education, you need a high paying job pay it off, and due to the competition you now need to be more specialized so the advice many receive from advisers and parents is no longer applicable. I am sure most are starting to advise different (at least I hope so) but there is a small generation that missed the gap which when coupled with the recession and resultant older people occupying entry level positions makes it very difficult for some to get out from under the high costs of the student loans.

is it the students fault? yes in the end it is all on the student. However the problem is also due in part to the actions of university's (generally speaking) and lenders