A trade school like Devry can educate and graduate for half the cost of a "state" run school. Seems like that is the model needed to be followed for general studies.
Let's crank up the tuition 12-15% for the tenth year in a row, the fool kids can just easily get a bigger loan. Once upon a time, med students worked their way through college with no loan, now they are stuck with a $250,000 debt before they even start practicing medicine.
Yeah, I'm a sucker who took out loans, went to school and wasted 4 years of my life stuck with a fat 23,500 bill. I urge kids to stand out, learn a skill, make yourself marketable. Go to college ONLY if it makes you learn a specialized skill that will seperate you from the pack. You are wasting your time and getting an expensive piece of paper when all said and done. Most successful people I know are just ambitious, street savvy, and people savvy and not book smart. College tuition is way overpriced now and will always be. I always felt like I was in prison in school most of my childhood life.
ya lower enrollment, meaning poor students with potential end up working at mcdonalds for life. it is stupid. a better solution is to regulate tuition and try to find ways to lower student debt loads instead of pumping money into places like iraq. lets free students from education debt...
Don't say that, I understand it's a great place to meet other crooks who will then invite you to join them in their scams as they infiltrate society.
This forum needs more balance. Not long ago I read in this same forum that everyone seemed to agree going in debt for a college degree these days was an investment. So which is true?
dude, whenever some huckster wants to palm off overpriced goods on ya they call it an investment. Your house was an investment 3 years ago 2. Everything has some value, even college. But at a fair price, not extortion.