slate.com: Quinn McDonald planned to spend the typical four years working toward a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice. Then he heard about a place where he could get the same degree in three.
“It was the idea of being able to save a year” that grabbed his attention, said McDonald—a savings of not only time, but tuition. And he could start earning a salary faster than if he spent four years in college.
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I think that we are very quickly reaching a point where having a college degree is becoming increasingly more difficult to obtain, and also increasingly less valuable. While I understand that some degrees obviously require them. I think that because they have become so expensive to achieve that it's just becoming more and more not worth it to pursue some of these. Like theater degrees are fine, theres incredibly valuable things to learn but at the same time a lot money that you have to loan or take out is just going to be almost impossible to make up for after you graduate, and its really coming to the point that its almost not worth it anymore. There's an incredibly large amount of people that are pursuing general community college because its cheap and having a trade degree can be incredibly valuable, and I think that shows where we are going in terms of people wanting to pursue college degrees now. Especially when its now harder than ever to get a job even when you have one.
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