18 Replies to “Are College Degrees Highly Overrated in 2024?”

  1. Didn’t help that many universities suffered ideological capture, resulting in armies of administrators driving up tuition and the politicization of many departments. Who wants to hire someone trained in disrupting systems of patriarchal oppression?

    1. “Didn’t help that many universities suffered ideological capture, resulting in armies of administrators driving up tuition and the politicization of many departments. Who wants to hire someone trained in disrupting systems of patriarchal oppression?”

      Agreed, KM….and I don’t see that changing any time soon. How would anyone even go about trying to dismantle the system as it exists now?

    1. “Until it is corruption breaks”. Is that an understandable sentence? Phrase? Apoestrophes are not intended to be scattered around like grass seed.

  3. Most college degrees aren’t worth the paper that they’re printed on and never have been. But that’s okay since most jobs that require a college degree don’t really need it, it’s just used as a gatekeeping device to whittle down the number of resumes and make hiring easier.

    1. Agreed – Far more important than a college degree are aptitude, IQ and personality type as determined by the Myers-Briggs indicator.

  4. If not for Griggs V. Duke Power, college degrees would not be required for most jobs, and most companies would go back to aptitude testing.

  6. It’s funny watching the Gaza protestors getting arrested and exclaiming “but I’m faculty”. Houston, we’ve identified the problem. Standing by for the fix.

    1. “The World Needs More Welders.”

      And less (xxxx) ‘studies’ degrees.

    1. There are so many people who do not understand how money works. Fortunately, our parents taught my sister and I well (our brothers not so much) and I passed on my knowledge to my daughter, who was able to straighten out her husband’s finances before they married.
      Economics is elegantly simple and perhaps that is why people are confused, they expect it to be difficult. There is “INCOME” and “OUTGO” (also known as expenditures). Sadly, all of our politicians do not understand this at all (especially Chrystia Freeland). Our parents said that there is only 2, maximum 3 types of good debt. Student loans (but only if you get a degree which gives you a job – so no BA’s); mortgages (so that you will get on the property ladder and eventually own your home) and maybe a car loan (but only if you do not want an expensive car or truck). For everything else either pay cash (and pay off your credit card every month) OR save up your money to pay for house repairs/renovations.
      See? Elegantly simple!

  10. The question should be, is the study about knowledge or about socialism.
    The two are incompatible, at opposite end of scale.
    Knowledge is rather raw.
    Socialism is venture into nothingness with a lot of idle rhetoric to get there. Remember that it failed every bloody time it was tried. Not because they did not do it right, because it is sophisticated nonsense.
    All the ‘isms completely ignore human nature and want to insist that they know how to live your life better than you.

  11. Until you address the unions creating a guild system in the skilled trades, you’re just swapping one problem for another. I have multiple friends who tried going into the skilled trades instead of university, only to discover it was impossible to make a living for five years due to the seniority rules or just plain being prevented from completing their apprenticeships.

  13. And I agree … the old 9-5 work world is a remnant of America’s past. Few jobs in the future will allow you to work so FEW hours, and not be on 24/7 work and/or standby. Or … conversely … the independent contractors who work when they want.

    As Steely Dan scolded John Lennon …

    You do his nine to five
    Drag yourself home half alive
    And there on the screen
    A man with a dream

    I heard it was you
    Talkin’ ’bout a world where all is free
    It just couldn’t be
    And only a fool would say that

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