One of the Worst Education Articles I've Read

[jamshid666]

OK, I'm going to say one nice thing about this article: it is a good idea to realistically consider what future employment you will have when you complete you degree, since you will have to pay off those student loans.  And, everyone should have a realistic point of view that they will be starting out on the low end of the pay scale until they've built up experience within their career field.

Now on to the negatives: although the author criticizes the ROI of these degrees, most of them still end up with a positive ROI, so the student loans would be paid off eventually while earning a decent wage.  I question where she gets all of her financial figures from, and she makes a false assumption that people have to stay in the career field they studied for in college.  One of the interesting things I've found in business and information technology is the large number of people that have other degrees outside of these fields.  A lot of people end up in the current careers not because of their majors, but because of some elective or some other factor.

The only thing I really took from this article is that private colleges are way over-priced compared to public ones, but all of us in this forum are already aware of that fact.

By the way, she has written 69 articles on that site, and all of them are biased and lack real facts and information to back up what she is saying.