[jyl]

Your last paragraph refers to the for profit education industry which is in fact a disgrace. They, or some of those companies, are in the business of suckering students into dubious programs for the only purpose of getting their student loans. The students end up with debt and no education or degree. Congress has been fitfully trying to rein in the industry but they have good lobbyists. You can buy their stocks if you like.

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again, do you actually have evidence of this?



been a while since i hung out with lib ed folks, but i thought it was common knowledge among them that job prospects, and high paying job prospects for most of those majors were pretty low. that no one was blowing smoke up there asses.



agian, thats just my experience with those kind of classes and folks, admittedly that was 5 years ago or so. no one prospects were good (probably less than half the graduating engineers had jobs).

Thankfully, I cannot offer first-hand evidence. I graduated a few times but long ago and my kids are young. However, I did see the issue show through with people returning to school for degrees in fields that offered a reasonable future. I've worked with a few folks that experienced similar situations...most are now nurses some having graduated from accelerated programs catering to this very issue.



I suspect a day spent at Starbucks or Barnes & Noble or many, many bars would turn up a fair number of people with nebulous degrees not at all related to coffee, books or booze figuring out where it all went wrong.



Lastly, I recall listening to the radio (NPR) laying out stories of students being denied financial aid to attend programs that were pumping out students with no employment (or loan repayment) prospects.