Thursday, October 21, 2010

What for a college degree?

More on this long running topic:
Some 17,000,000 Americans with college degrees are doing jobs that the BLS says require less than the skill levels associated with a bachelor’s degree.
I am not sure how many of these entered these professions after earning their college degrees; I would assume that they are the majority.  In any case, do colleges and universities provide students with this data?  I guess not--it won't serve their enrollment business, right? 

The end is near ....

Meanwhile, student debts keep going up.
The class of 2009 graduated with an average of $24,000 in debts from student loans, up 6 percent from the previous year,
And the result in these awful economic conditions?  Examples like this story of a college grad working in the custodial services of the same university from where he graduated with a "degree in network and information-technology administration last December"

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