| HappySqurriel said: Anecdotal videos, that’s the equivalent of statistical evidence isn’t it? The evidence in the job market indicates that people with higher education have a higher participation rate, much lower unemployment, and are paid much better than individuals with a high-school education (or worse).Overall this translates into the labour market of college and university graduates being far healthier than the labour market in general, and it could be argued that the skilled labour market in western nations is entirely healthy. Does this mean that every degree ensures jobs? No, in fact many schools graduate far too many students in (fairly) worthless (from a career perspective) degrees because they can get the same tuition and support from the government in these fields in spite of them being fields with very low cost educations. Now, I don’t know the specifics of your education but it has been my experience that individuals with certain management degrees are always in high demand (typically people with degrees related to accounting) while other degrees are only worthwhile to get individuals entry level office positions. I don’t know what school you went to but most well respected schools tend not to offer "Masters in Information Systems" degrees, especially to individuals with no relevant undergrad; and some schools that offer these degrees (Devry) are so poorly respected that the degree is just a very expensive piece of paper. |
If you watched all the videos, you see the case for what I mentioned. And if you watched this video, you will see the entire system is producing too many degreed individuals who don't need degrees to do the jobs:
As far as my background went, my Masters did get me a job with IBM and others have been hired out of Marist also. The school is accredited. But, the reality is that IT has gone the way of India and the entire field should be structured more the way plumbers and electricians and other technical people do things, NOT the college route at all.
There is need for more education to specialize in a craft, but schools saddling students with $100K plus debt coming out, don't cut it. As far as the schools that are in demand, say an Ivy League school, the debt load vs what you make, just isn't worth it.
