@John Nachtigall , I fully stand by what I said that "Higher education in the U.S. is a scam. It's nothing but a business spewing out college graduates with degrees they neither need or, for the most part, will use". Most undergraduates spend an inordinate amount of time taking "electives" that they neither need or add any value to their major. In addition, far too many graduates leave college owing tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of dollars in debt (a lot of that money spent on the meaningless electives that they had to take to graduate). They also spend 4 years in college studying for skills in particular careers that they could be trained in under 2 years or less. Most employers simply put "Undergraduate Degree Required" in a job description just because it looks good. Again, most of these jobs don't require the applicants to have spent 4 years in school for what they're going to do on the job. I'm just waiting for the day when I see an advertisement for a dishwasher that requires an undergraduate degree. And, finally, I've lost count of the number of resumes I've reviewed where the applicant had a college degree in a subject that bore absolutely no resemblance or had any bearing on what jobs they worked after graduation. So, do I think all college degrees are a scam? No, I don't. However, what I do think is a scam is that young people are being left thousands of dollars in debt, after having spent 4 years in college, for an education that could have been imparted in half that time, for jobs that really didn't require such a commitment in time and finances, and, for a degree that all too often that had no relation to their career path after graduation. P.S. I have a B.S. and an MBA, with the latter being from one of the top 3 business schools in the world.
