Comments on: Does a College Degree Protect your Career? Unemployment Rate for College Graduates Highest on Record.

By: Francesco

Francesco — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:48:34 +0000

who decides to invest all that money in higher education must collect infos about the job market consider what employment possibilities there are and where they are.this means choose carefully your major and consider that u have to sutisfy the needs of the market and not viceversa.and dont forget another relevant factor..there are other thousands of students competing for the same job so when you choose your university and spend all that money,please be smart enough to not loose yourself in the childish campus life and work hard to be the best..possibly working part time on the side to learn the value of money.i’m from europe and you can bet that most students here extremely determined to fill the lack of “prestige” of the avarage european university with their strong commitment and their own sense of responsability.they kick their asses,working and studying,for mami and papi are not there financiating all that superfluous “campus life”.yet they graduate with excellent netes and come to your country to end up probably finding a better position than yours.i think the moral here is only one…work hard to be the best and you’ll be rewarded.welcome to the global market

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:09:53 +0000

FYI–NSF is National Science Foundation

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:43:37 +0000

Please note that the data in this article only shows Bachelors Degees for Science, which is irrlevant for high paying jobs, and or serious scientific research. NSF data reveal that in 2005, the foreign student population earned approximately 34.7% of the doctorate degrees in the sciences and approximately 63.1% of the doctorate degrees in engineering.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:59:02 +0000

As a foreign national, who holds multiple US degrees, I have realized
that here in the US, it is not the years that you study that matter, but rather the difficulty level of your studies. Most Americans do not like challenging courses in science, math or chemistry. Americans love the easy stuff like a JD. Anyone can become an Attorney; you only need to be able to read and write. For Healthcare careers you need to know and understand science, something that requires the use of your cerebral cortex.

For instance, a dental Hygienist, who only requires a 2 year associate’s degree, can easily make more than an attorney (a 7 year degree, plus 6 months of taking and passing the bar). How can this be possible? ECO. 101- Law of supply and demand. For instance, in FL there is way over 90K attys vs. less than 8 registered dental hygienist. Thus, a RDH can easily command a salary of $35.00 an hour, when working for a Dentist. An associate attorney in FL will normally get paid $25.00 to $30.00 per hour (unless he is working for an elite law firm or handling Personal Injury cases). Do the math; if you want to become an attorney, you will need to spend as a minimum $150k, not to mention the opportunity cost of not working for 5 years. For a RDH, you can go to a public school and spend $5K at the most, and you will not forgo the salary of 5 years-the additional amount of time that would require becoming an atty.

By: Sam Hill

Sam Hill — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:12:19 +0000

College degrees have become overvalued. The education bubble.
It does not guarantee a job or a salary. If you take out a college loan
for a degree. There is a extremely good chance that the yearly salary you obtain will not be sufficient to exceed the cost of the degree in 10 to 15 years. Possibly longer. With two degrees I have been out of work for 24 months.

By: John

John — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:35:03 +0000

An expensive 4 year college degree is worth it as long as you choose the correct major. I graduated as an electrical engineer with significant coursework in Finance in May of 2008 and I have a great job at a Bank. But classmates of mine with art history majors are surprisingly unemployed. Perhaps if they had thought about their job prospects 4 years earlier then they would have realized that their major was only for their own satisfaction.

By: Terrance Stuart

Terrance Stuart — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:43:42 +0000

Higher Education is a business. Generally, the first two years are a rehash of what you should have learned in high school. A two year college usually can provide you those classes economically.

If colleges and universities were held to the same standard as pharmaceutical companies they should be required to give a warning to students that the course work they choose to take is no guarantee of future employment.

A short trip to careerstop on the web will allow you to drill down to the statistics on what is needed in the job market, what the range of salary is, and so forth.

We have obviously moved way past the notion that higher education is strictly for the sake of learning. Speaking of China, mnany of their so called engineers are not trained to the levels ours are, and they are still retiring k-12 teachers who could teach the 6th grade because they had attended the 6th grade. So the credentialing in China may be suspect.

The final truth is college graduate unemployment is at an all time high, but it remains lower then non-college employment. It is also interesting that in recent years females are surpassing males in numbers as college attendees and graduates. Strong vocational training may be more more valuable then many academic fields in the future, as energy prices may re-industrialize this country as the “global economy” may become a lot more localized by necessity.

By: PSzymeczek

PSzymeczek — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:17:17 +0000

Got my Master’s to get the heck out of the switchboard in civil service. 19 years later, I was fired from civil service for no good reason.

By: Carol Harris RN

Carol Harris RN — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 06:32:06 +0000

I graduated in 1958 from a hospital nursing program. I have always
been employed until I retired. I have an AA degree and was a semester short of a BSN. I know that nursing is hard, but there
are many perks. If you come out of a 2 year program, most hospitals will pay your tuition for a bachelor’s degree. You can
get an LPN license after one year. LPN’s are making $25.00/hr in
my area in nursing homes. Nurses make about $60.00 a year in my
area in Charlottesville, VA. It is true that all of those science courses are “hard ” for some folks, but you will have a job. Most
nurses in my area work three twelve hour shifts and have four
days off a week.

By: RICHARD RALPH ROEHL

RICHARD RALPH ROEHL — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:08:37 +0000

It seems that most colleges and universities in the United $tates have become glorious [sic] football teams… more than institutions of higher learning. This is why college coaches, especially footballing coaches, earn six and seven figure $tipends ANNUALLY… whereas the physics professor earns peanuts and pissst water wages!

Furthermore… the current economic $ituation is making a mockery of having a college degree. Or two or three degrees. Indeed! The ever increasing cost of time and money to acquire a college degree seems a feckless and burdensome excercise… done more for the $ake of eeego than common $ense.

These days/daze… it makes much more common $ense to pursue a useful vocational $urvival $kill that’s wanted and needed by society. I need a plumber and a car mechanic… more than I need someone with a degree in correct-arse feminism… or crony banksterism… or perhaps some other $cam profession.

Wake up! See what has happened to colleges and universities in the United $tates since the 1960’s. See it!