Do you think a college degree is worth anything anymore? - Page 3

its worth it if you know how to use it. Luck is always needed as well.

Liberal Arts degree is just a paper. Everyone can go to a community college and get a liberal arts degree. Math, and Science are crucial for a better future. Although it makes me cringe when people overlook philosophy since it is a very important subject...

Liberal arts degrees are not useless (maybe I'm just biased because I happen to be a English and History double major). But students should realize that you need at least a masters to do anything worthwhile in those fields. I suppose people are more attracted to the STEM fields because in most cases, a Bachelor's is enough.

Students should also realize that you need BA or MA from an ivy league to do anything worthwhile.

Not for biology, physics, math, chemistry, earth science and even for some engineering degree

I think I read somewhere the majority of millionaires don't have a college degree? If you're shooting for billionaire however....

i don't think that's true but even if that's true, they didn't become millionaires because they don't have a college degree.

I completely disagree with this non-sense that a college degree is not worth anything. Just because a person earned a million dollars without having a degree doesn't mean that they are invaluable.

I am majoring in a STEM field and it has been the most rewarding experience of my life, there is no better feeling than the pursuit of knowledge and the desire to learn a new subject by challenging yourself. Everything I have learned during college has been meaningful in some way or another. After all, you should be going to college because you want expand your horizons and opportunities by majoring in an specific field, not because you're looking at what jobs pay the most.

These days, it's not even about what job pays the most, it's about if you can get a job at all..

and the whole pt of going to college is to get a nice job, not to fall into a stream of consciousness about what Socrates said while flipping burgers..

This isn't particularly true. If we're talking University of Phoenix, then yes, I wholeheartedly agree with you. But if you're actually pursuing an education at a respectable university, unless you're doing a professional or pre-professional track, then your education is, or at least should be, far more than just trying to get a nice job. Even if we were to concede your point, philosophy majors tend to make more than most after a few years. Interesting how that happens.

To learn to think critically and independently = priceless.

A college degree is worth tons if only for the fact that graduates are expected to know how to write and communicate effectively, and have knowlege of math that goes beyond basic arithmetic. I work in healthcare and you cannot imagine the amount of MDs - and I'm talking surgeons, not just primary medicine doctors- who for the love of God cannot spell, nor write a coherent paragraph.

I once witnessed a "nurse" (who knows where she attended school or the level of clinical training she got) walk out of a doctor's office after complaining that the hospital staff "insisted" in recording patients' height in inches, and she couldn't convert inches to feet past five feet. Need not say more.