re: Why do universities charge exorbitant tuitions for a worthless education?

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Why do people choose worthless degrees

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The university wants to fill those classes and counsels them to go that route.

My friend's daughter graduated with a forestry degree of all things.

She couldn't find work.. Useless.

How else would they be able to pay 250k salaries to vibe managers?

For the same reason that a dog licks his balls.

More money from the feds!

Because just like Unions they are paying retirement benefits long into the future.

Seems like a responsible thinking politician would go after higher education and their high tuition, especially any state schools bilking their own citizenry just to fatten the wallets of some looser lefties professors and administration.

Couch it to the youth and taxpayers that you are fighting for an affordable, quality education. No one holds higher education to any kind of business standard.

Because the loans are backed by the government and they will get their $ no matter what. They have arbitrarily increased tuition at an insane rate due to this. Government student loans are the reason you have to get student loans to afford college ironically. When my dad was in school he worked all summer to pay for his tuition. Impossible to do that nowadays.

Because idiots like the Turnip in the fricking White House makes printer go brrrrr

Yes, I agree, worthless degrees, yaddy-yadda. True for most. For certain other students, college is a stepping stone to a great career opportunity. My daughter, as an example, treats studying as serious business. She just started her senior year at OU, served an internship at a Dallas based global company this summer, and has already been offered a six-figure job by that company as soon as she graduates, along with a $25k signing bonus, fully paid for health, life and disability insurance, $125 a month phone allowance and they'll fully reimburse her for getting her masters degree while she's working in their financial analytics services group.

A lot has to do with aptitude, attitude and motivation. She worked hard to get where she is, but as we all know, most students do as little as possible to get by, and are more interested in the social part and just being away from Mom and Dad. They don't put in the required effort. These are the kids that would get turned down if a university had to guarantee the loans, itself. My daughter has three roommates sharing their university apartment. Two of them are complete airheads who will take five to six years to graduate. Maybe. If they're lucky. They'd probably have been better off studying cosmetology and learning to dye hair. Not that there's anything wrong with that. But they went to college because their moms wanted them to have the "college experience" and spend time in a sorority. I guess that's one reason to go, but not the right reason. Too many go for the wrong reason and yes, end up with worthless degrees.

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this is why

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Yeah, basic supply and demand. This is from memory but I think when I started GT in the early 80’s out of state tuition was $1,100 per quarter, 3 quarters per calendar year for $3,300 per year. Per an inflation calendar that’s $9k per year for out of state. Out of state for GT now is $45k.