What do you think of higher education in America?

Everyone should attain a college education and get some sort of degree. (And only college educated people should be allowed to vote!) The student should pay his/her own way which makes it more valuable.

The university system here is quickly going down the tubes as far as value is concerned. Quality seems to be suffering also. I’m glad I got my degrees when I did.

It’s a fucking joke. These institutions aren’t here to help better the youth, they’re here to make money and put you in enough debt so that you are required to take shit jobs to pay off the massive amounts of debt you’ve acquired. It’s indentured servitude.

It’s over rated, and scandalously overpriced. The irony is that it is also the envy of most of the world. The cost excesses are forcing new models to the fore. And big changes are underway.

http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/08/the-future-of-college/375071/

What @El_Cadejo. There’s something wrong with the system when people with a bachelor’s degree don’t know the difference between your and you’re. Their ignorance is plastered all over Facebook.

@jonsblond Mobile phones and “text speak” are the real culprit. I’m guilty myself, it’s really easy to tell when anyone posts from a mobile device.

I do think if most universities could afford it there would not be any students.

I go to a “cheap” college for my area. Tuition is around 6k a semester but constantly on the rise because the college “doesn’t have enough money” . The fun part to all this is that every year the president of the college takes a $550,000 bonus. Yea…bonus, not salary but bonus.

Prices keep going up and up and up, especially in relation to wages. In many cases it takes decades to pay off the student loans. Post-college 20somethings are having an increasingly difficult time finding a job in their field of study, or any job at all. High student loan payments are handicapping their ability to start an adult life on their own. (I’m 27, this is most of my friends.) Meanwhile, the federal government is cutting spending on higher education, so there are less need-based grants to go around.

There doesn’t seem to be a good alternative to getting a degree, though. A lucky few, like me, work in fields where you don’t need one to be successful.

Otherwise, I would strongly suggest going to community college, and then transferring to a public state college.

My first degree was from a community college back in 1999. All of the cash spent in two years of tuition and books was made back in my first three paychecks. Second time around at the university I still cash flowed it but it would have taken two years to pay back the amount. If I started now, we would be talking about a decade or more

In my opinion, if you want money take a trade, or start your own business. University is meant to help fuel a passion, like wiping out cancer.