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lumberjack_jeff

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11. Tuition is paid in currency.

Reply to Posteritatis (Reply #1)

Sun Sep 8, 2013, 05:27 PM

Sep 2013

If the degree that is purchased doesn't provide any return on that investment, it's a lifestyle purchase with little to recommend it over a $40,000 handbag.

On second thought, it's worse. You can sell the handbag.

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Higher education is in an expensive muddle with too many useless degrees [View all] FarCenter Sep 2013 OP

Oh boy, a "universities are supposed to be trade schools" thread. (nt) Posteritatis Sep 2013 #1

And a British one, at that. frazzled Sep 2013 #3

People like any excuse to sneer at non-STEM degrees. (nt) Posteritatis Sep 2013 #7

No. Trade schools are supposed to be trade schools. SheilaT Sep 2013 #4

Tuition is paid in currency. lumberjack_jeff Sep 2013 #11

Are kids ignoring the trade schools? highmindedhavi Sep 2013 #2

Yes, of course they are jmowreader Sep 2013 #6

Tuition is more than twice as much as it should ever cost. PlanetaryOrbit Sep 2013 #5

Seriously; US tuition rates are kind of terrifying from this perspective Posteritatis Sep 2013 #8

More people getting college educations is a good thing! It's capitalism that tells us it's bad. reformist2 Sep 2013 #9

Credentialism is a result of the shift of the responsibility for training onto employees. lumberjack_jeff Sep 2013 #10

In technology it takes about 5000 hours to become competent, and half is useless in 5 years. FarCenter Sep 2013 #13

Every degree is useless. hunter Sep 2013 #12