Has college become a scam?

[Anathema]

The problem with college is very simple… it’s no longer CAREER-oriented. Instead of turning out graduates who are ready and capable of entering the workforce at close to full speed, these institutions either proliferate permanent-student hood for thesmeseckids or blotter course loads with tons of crap courses and indoctrination.

Go back to career-oriented programs and things will work themselves out.

 

[1srelluc]

Yep. I can't tell you, for example, how many kids I have met who got a degree in say, "criminal justice", who are now back in school for a STEM related class.

Universities have no interest in preparing you for the job market, they just want your money.

Actually back in the day Virginia DOC had a full boat program in my AO where you went for a criminal justice degree and worked at a Field Unit (either #8, #7, or #30) on every other weekend, holidays, and in the Summer when school was out.

You were locked in for two years after graduation and if you made it through that you were promoted to LT.....Back then it was damn good money.

Trouble was they ended up losing them to .gov agencies hiring them away so they ended it.

 

[Unkotare]

Yep. I can't tell you, for example, how many kids I have met who got a degree in say, "criminal justice", who are now back in school for a STEM related class.

Universities have no interest in preparing you for the job market, they just want your money.

I know several people who majored in Criminal Justice and went on to have careers as police officers, parole officers, FBI agents, etc. All these declarations about which college majors have value or not is just nonsense. You can't know what anyone's path will be.

 

[martybegan]

I know several people who majored in Criminal Justice and went on to have careers as police officers, parole officers, FBI agents, etc. All these declarations about which college majors have value or not is just nonsense. You can't know what anyone's path will be.

Lawyers as well. I know one that's a DA now after going to Law School.

 

[Votto]

I know several people who majored in Criminal Justice and went on to have careers as police officers, parole officers, FBI agents, etc. All these declarations about which college majors have value or not is just nonsense. You can't know what anyone's path will be.

Whatever

AI is going to take most of the coming jobs anyway, so colleges should adjust, but they simply don't care enough to do that even though they know full well what is coming.

They just want your money.

 

[wamose]

The cost of college is too high and the quality is too low. There are also far too many kids wasting everyone's time and money on college. Harvard's tuition was $2K in 1968.

 

[candycorn]

LOL, sure, that's why we have the homeless problem that we have---because everybody is employed. SMFH

You’re ignorant of that economic principle? Imagine my shock.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/trump-inherits-labor-market-full-employment-can-he-keep-it-there-2025-02-07/

While we’re on the topic, unemployment is up under your blob.

 

[Concerned American]

While we’re on the topic, unemployment is up under your blob.

Homelessness didn't arrive with his election, moron.

 

[DGS49]

It is worth saying...and repeating...that if your goal is to be financially successful, going to college is barely a middling route to that end. If it is possible to learn a trade, that is equally useful. (In my geographical area, learning a trade is not always a path to a career, as TRADE UNIONS put up roadblocks in many cases).

But the real opportunity is now, and always has been, entrepreneurship, and a college education is not required in most cases. Immigrants have a lot to teach us in that regard. They come here with nothing, start a business, work their asses off, and succeed. Not all of them, of course, but lots of them.

The types of business are infinite. Landscaping, painting, food-related, services that people don't want to do for themselves.

If you could take four years of college tuition and invest that same amount of money in a small business...the sky is the limit.

 

[Manonthestreet]