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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy
College opens doors to a career. Different degrees open different doors, you won't be considered for many accounting jobs with the aforementioned major in Latin.
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True, but I could argue that the Latin major actually might have the edge for a much broader set of jobs than the accounting major.
In the end it comes down to the individual. There are straightforward paths, and others that are much less so. Plenty of people who drifted through college then got out and couldn't find a job that they either liked or thought paid enough. Is that the fault of the college?
College prices are high for a number of reasons. Part of it is that people are willing to pay for it, but sadly some (or many) do so out of habit rather than cost/benefit analysis. Lots of people love to blame the colleges and "stupid degrees" but the reality is that those degrees have value. Whether or not the individual can use or leverage that value effectively, or has suitable expectations for compensation in the real world is a totally different story.