This is dense. College degrees are still very profitable. They aren't working in any of these roles in mass.
Absolutely made up propaganda for those without the ability to verify the simplest of facts.
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I'm not sure why the above comment was down voted so hard. This community should encourage insightful comments.
It seems like overall college degrees are still a worthwhile financial investment on average.
If you disagree, dialogue.
Compared to the average high school graduate, the earnings premiums were:
$495,000 over a lifetime for people who completed an associate’s degree; $1 million for those who completed a bachelor’s degree; and $1.7 million for those with a graduate degree.
https://www.bls.gov/careeroutlook/2021/data-on-display/education-pays.htm
For example, workers with a bachelor’s degree had median weekly earnings of $1,305 in 2020, compared with $781 for workers with a high school diploma. And the unemployment rate for bachelor’s-level workers was 5.5 percent, compared with 9.0 percent for those whose highest level of education was a high school diploma.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/18/median-return-on-investment-for-a-college-degree.html
the typical college graduate can expect a median 12.5% return on their investment in higher education
I’m not sure why the above comment was down voted so hard. This community should encourage insightful comments.
I do not consider the sentence, "Absolutely made up propaganda for those without the ability to verify the simplest of facts," to be an example of brilliant insight; I suspect that the vote count would have been different if it had not been present.
Averages and outdated statistics only tell some of the story... It's not the boomer age anymore...
More pros and cons: https://www.lifehack.org/articles/work/5-reasons-whyyour-new-bachelors-degree-is-worthless.html
Realistically the situation keeps getting much worse, not better. Not just for students but also for faculty, et al.
Seems you’ve upset a lot of people without a college degree, or a lot of people doing nothing with their degree.
It’s a bummer people downvote facts when it hurts their feelings. Pretty much a page out of the conservative playbook.
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If you are about to finish high school and still dont know what to study in college but have the opportunity to go to college (I know many can't and that's ok). Study business administration and marketing; you'll either learn a skill you can apply in a corporate job, or you can use it to be trully successful opening your own business and being independent anywhere in the world.
This might be the worst advice i've ever seen.
Those degrees and art degrees are likely what meme refer to.
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The illusion of equal opportunity, dut dut doooo