The latest NBC News poll shows two-thirds of registered voters down on the value proposition of a degree. A majority said degrees were worth the cost a dozen years ago.
Americans have grown sour on one of the longtime key ingredients of the American dream.
Almost two-thirds of registered voters say that a four-year college degree isn’t worth the cost, according to a new NBC News poll, a dramatic decline over the last decade.
Just 33% agree a four-year college degree is “worth the cost because people have a better chance to get a good job and earn more money over their lifetime,” while 63% agree more with the concept that it’s “not worth the cost because people often graduate without specific job skills and with a large amount of debt to pay off.”
I have to disagree with them.
As I’ve been saying, college is not for the undecided or the indecisive. If you do not have a clear and cut career goal in mind and you still go through college, you will find yourself in a world of debt and financial hurt. All for nothing. All for a degree that means nothing because it sounded cool to you.
Do you really need an arts degree? Do you really need a liberal arts degree? Do you really need a philosophy degree?
No to all, that’s just examples.
It’s going to be a fun world without arts and philosophy…
And bravo to 18yo kids that have all that planned. Not sur life is set on rails and all for most of us. Sure didn’t feel that way for me. Or about everyone around me.
Oh please…you act like everything art-related is strictly funneled through a college system when there’s thousands of artists out there who practice art.
And philosophy is about as good as just trying to prove someone wrong in a fruitless argument on the internet.
Who’re you trying to fool?
Comparing a rigorous Philosophy degree to an internet argument is something said only by the uneducated.
Philosophy is the spearhead of science, most scientific breakthroughs begin first with philosophy.