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.”
No longer? I didn’t see them as worth the cost fifteen years ago. That’s why I emigrated back to my home country so I could study virtually for free.
Well, that was you.
'Twas I!
Your specific situation doesn’t apply to everybody.
The only important part was the first. I kept thinking, how in the world is it acceptable to charge that much for a degree and endebt students for the majority of their lives? What if you fail to find a high-paying job to pay it back? People would simply shrug it off as if it were normal and shared “tips” like paying the minimum of $50 forever without caring that they’d end up paying twice as much as they borrowed.
And because of that, our high school admins made sure to show us that trade jobs and community college were viable alternatives. I took the third option because of the family circumstances at the time.
They didn’t say it did
They expressed incredulous disbelief in why people don’t agree with them.
They had an option others don’t.