College degrees are a waste of time, money and effort.

[HappySqurriel]

Tanstalas said:

HappySqurriel said:

This probably depends heavily on the field but I have known a few people who graduated from these schools and found jobs easily, but were told by their company (after a couple of years) that they couldn’t advance further in the company without a university degree. This isn't to say that these schools are bad, after all you can get a good paying job with their education, but there is a trade-off that is being made.

 

Such as what fields, I'm wondering?

If you are saying like someone who went to school for nursing which is a college course and then they can't move on to be a doctor - I totally agree with you.

I'm mostly thinking of people I know in my field (software development and IT in general). With some of the certificates and diplomas offered in these colleges an individual can get a job as a programmer, DBA, QA, or technical support person but are often limited to entry level positions; and can’t become team leads, architects, project managers or business analysts because they don’t have a degree.