What's the REAL value of college?...see details...?

Question

Suppose you didn't need a college degree to get a corporate job? Suppose you had to pay out of your own pocket for college. Would you then say it's worth it?...how??????

Answer 1

The real value lies in what you learn. Not just the course material, but all the little extras that you learn, like when a professor tells a story or talks a little about something unrelated to the course. You meet different kinds of people and become a more open-minded person.

Answer 2

I paid out of my own pocket for college. Paying my parents back with blood and sweat. $40,000 for four year of college and hell yeah it was worth it. Why? because my education makes a difference in the type of job I get. There's no way you can be an lawyer, engineer, doctor without an education. Suppose I didn't need a college degree to get a corporate job? I'd still say it was worth it because whether we want it or not some people are smarter than others, some have better abilities than others, street smarts, books smarts.... at least I'm on a leveled playing field and got to learn a little bit from all the people I've met. I spent four years on campus, travelled 13 countries, have more friends than I can count from all over the world. It was all worth it.

Answer 3

No College? No sexy babes that you wonder what they're studying? No language classes? It seems like heading straight into the corporate world might cut you out from meeting a lot of interesting people. What's the plan? Get a corporate job, get married, have children, make more money, die? Doesn't sound too appealing to me. You can still have all that if you go to college, but with all the perks. At college you've got a greater spectrum of people than in the corporate world. And they're people who aren't just interested in a steady job.

Answer 4

First of all you do NOT need a college degree to get a corporate job (a friend of mine went to work for IBM straight out of high school). Also, I pay out of my own pocket for my education (bachelors and doctorate - skipped my masters). I think it's absolutely worth it! I will have the job I want when I'm done and have the ability to turn other jobs down that I don't want. I'll never have to worry about job dissatisfaction because I can say "No" and not have to worry about it.

Answer 5

If you're a girl, you'll probably meet your future husband in college. Not so bad, is it?
You'll also make friends and contacts that will last a lifetime. Sounding better?
College graduates generally get nicer jobs than those who don't go to college! This might not apply to you -- but might be more important in five or ten years, when your first job goes south.

If I had to pay out of my own pocket -- I'd go two years to a community college, then the next years at a state college.

Answer 6

Well,,,,,one CPA (Accountant) told me all his CPA got him was a piece of paper and the first job...coasted since then.

In my case, the 2 yr degree got me started in the workforce, but here I am 23 yrs later, and I am earning what I did back in 1992 because, after I turned 40-ish, I became less valuable.

So, my 30k per yr job is now only 23k, I am struggling, and having to hold down 2 jobs to make ends meet.

My suggestion is to get more than a 2 yr degree. Try to set up you OWN business or work for the state. If I had it to start over again, I'd have gone into the service, did my time, retire, and get them to help fund my education, gotten my education. Gone to work for the City, retire again. Have two retirements rolling in, then go work for the state doing a simple job, and get retirement there with medical.

Instead, I went by general American business, and no retirement, no medical. Nuthin. I was able to land this job working for the state, took me a yr to get it, will have medical, and am locked into it - to work until they bury me.

Don't do what I did. Be smarter.

Answer 7

I graduated from University, and I always say that it was the biggest waste of time. I spent 4+ years learning sh*t I'll never need, and being forced to take classes completely unrelated to my degree. I ended up paying thousands and thousands of dollars for a piece of paper. If you NEED to go to school for your program of choice to learn training (ie. nursing, etc.), then I guess you have no choice. But university and I'm guessing college, too, to some degree, was a waste of time. In the end, I think landing a job is about WHO you know, not entirely WHAT you know. I got my job with the government not only because I have a criminology degree, but in part because someone put in a good word for me.

Answer 8

First of all, colleges and universities're there to fulfill students' thirst of knowledge at higher education (tertiary) level, it's simply one of the ideal goals of such education worldwide. Indeed, "It's a place of light, of liberty and of learning." (From Fraser Building, UQ in Australia)
Moreover, it's a great place we'd meet and know a lot of friends, teachers, staff, etc. whom we get in touch sometime in a learning community and learn part of your life-long education. As for your own payment, I think it's a good way to invest from which you need your practical plan and, in essence, it'd make you grow up. Your family'd be proud of your success if you make it.