| richardhutnik said:
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. |
Being that the unemployment rate for Computer and mathematical occupations was 5.1% in June 2010 I think the loss of those jobs to India is heavily overstated.
(http://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cpseea30.pdf)
I don’t doubt that currently far too many students are graduating from post-secondary institutions and working in fields completely unrelated to their education; but if you actually looked at the data you would realize that these are mostly individuals graduating from fields where there is no clear career path in the first place. Unemployment among Computer Science, Engineering, and Management graduates (and some graduates from the natural sciences) are actually very low; but degrees in the Social Sciences, Humanities and many of the Fine Arts end up leading people to work as baristas at Starbucks.
The beauty of some degree fields (Computer Science is one I know this applies to) is that even graduating more individuals than the field requires is not necessarily a bad thing, because some people who have obtained a worthwhile education in these fields will create the jobs for the rest of the graduates. As an example of what I mean, if you take software developers who have several years of experience and take away their jobs a significant portion of them will start their own projects/companies, and of those companies a significant portion will be successful enough to sustain the individual who started them, and of those self-sustaining projects/companies a significant portion will be exceptionally successful.
