| sethnintendo said: @Baalzamon, yea that 8.2k is for 30 hours which is a year (15 hours per semester, I am pretty sure 12 is still full time but most people take least 15 hours per semester). A lot of the high school things you just mentioned didn't start happening in most states till around 2000 or so. So I couldn't get college credit in high school in Ohio because they just started allowing that after I graduated high school. I understand that generally the college educated people make more money. My degree in Wildlife and Fisheries Management hasn't even helped me find a job in that career. Problem is that there are too many Wildlife majors for the little jobs. I have applied to about 1,000 or more wildlife jobs since 2007 and received one offer for part time job in FL which I denied because I couldn't move there for a part time job. So my field is pretty much filled with people with more experience and I can't get any experience because no one will hire me. So I work in manufacturing field etc until one day maybe I will get my chance..... The only thing I can thank my degree for is the 16k in federal student loan debt. |
There is a reason your tuition is expensive, as are the lack of jobs. They are correlated. There is a major demand for college education, which waters down the number of available jobs in given fields. It also increases tuition as there is a greater demand for the education, and a lack of supply.
The answer would be less government involvement in student aid, and the atrocious system that we've allowed to exist, whereby the government has monopolized student loans. If we didn't give out as many "free" loans, there would be fewer students that are merely there for no good reason, and cost would likely go down, and chance of hiring would increase.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
