College Buys You a Job
A college education buys you a decent job. The more you pay the more you receive. If you pay to go to Yale, you graduate with a degree from Yale, and that degree gets you a job. In my opinion Friedman would see this as another flattener. Everyone is trying to buy their way into a great job. Well certainly not everyone, because there are still those who do not go to college. Or what about those that go for a few years and realize that they cannot survive.
According to the NY Times Magazine article, the price of college has out grown the outcome of the college degree. I disagree with this idea. As I said before, the more you pay the more you receive. Not that those who go to more expensive colleges get better educations, because they certainly do not. The issue is that businesses are looking to hire the student who went to MIT or Yale, etc. I often hear of my friends that go to great schools getting great high-paying jobs.
The article also mentions the idea that what is most marketable is the person that can do more than one thing. The person who is capable of thinking outside the box, and has not concentrated on one area of study. This person is the creator of new things, things that have not been discovered yet that will bring in mass amounts of money. But then again, the You-Tube and Napster stories seem to come from places like Yale and Harvard...
posted by Lauren at 6:45 PM
2 Comments:
Lauren,
I certainly see what you mean. I do believe, though, that your education is what you make of it. Just because someone goes to Harvard or Yale does not, to me, seem to be any smarter than someone going to SUNY Cortland. Some people just cannot afford that type of education. I truly believe that it is what you do with your education that makes or breaks you. A degree from Harvard or Yale is not going to get you the "best" job because you have to fight for a job. You have to prove yourself worthy.
I definitely agree with you--college does buy you a job. It seems like the more you pay (i.e. go to Yale), the better the job will be. Students who go to high-paying private schools will get first job selections at high-paying stakes. State schools, which has less tuition, still offers jobs for those who receive bachelor degrees, but you really are getting what you pay for.
I just can't believe how high tuition is rising each year...
Jami
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