I cant count how many times I have read or heard a company that needed help but couldnt find qualified applicants. Are colleges to blame for this lack of qualified help or no? How can a company such as mine take anyone serious who cant do any better than a liberal arts degree?
You ruined your entire message with your completely biased poll. No one will want to respond to this. <<< MOD EDIT: INSULT REMOVED >>> I am currently attending community college actually ( a very good one) to get my core classes out of the way for a 4 year focusing on computer programming and engineering. Glad to see you get all your facts from sitcoms.
Why begrudge people for studying what they are interested in? It's their life not yours. The poing of a higher education is to acquire knowledge, not to train for a career. If you want training go to a trade school, not a university. It will be easier, cheaper, and take less time. But don't antagonize those of us who wish to better ourselves by getting a college education.
In some cases, yes. I live next to a tenured Business Professor who teaches at a local University who has zero experience in Business. Conversations I've had with him convince me he knows little about business or economics or the real world. He's a nice guy, but can you imagine trying to learn business from him? And who would hire these students?
Just vote!!!!! Your major is a good one. Engineering and computer programming,you have chosen wisely. You will succeed where the idiot pot smoking hippie liberal arts major will only join OWS and whine about the rich owing him something because he failed!! I wish you much success in your chosen career!
A useless education!!!!!!! Get a real education in an in demand field!! OWS is full of people who chose wrong and wanted one of your educations instead of a real useful one. No one should be made to pay their stupid tax!! Not one tax dollar should be used to help people who choose useless majors!!
It's only useless to you. Who gave you the power to decide what other people wish to learn? It's not your place to say that the thing someone else is studying is invalid.
I'm afraid I don't like any of the answers. Colleges offer a product that kids are interested in - easy useless degrees that allow their grant money to come and and let them believe that they will be able to get a great job. The fault is with students too stupid or lazy to pick a worthwhile degree program. The colleges offer plenty of great degrees, but students continue to pick the worthless ones.
Oh, and where can I find a college that will let me get the degree mentioned in the fourth option? That would be enough to make me look at getting another degree.
The 1st couple years of college has become very generic with "generals". In effect, being forced to pay for 2 years of stuff people should learn in high school. Most companies you have to learn on the job. Hence, why all want "experienced" employees in an employer's market. Basically, younger generations are screwed. College is a business venture for said universities, so of course they are going to push "have to have a higher education". If colleges cared about young people, they wouldn't except someone horrible at math for an engineering degree. Colleges just take anyone who can qualify for a loan. We have a serious problem with people going into things that are not natural to them. Liberal arts use to be very useful, as at least someone could get a degree in something that interested them, and you will always learn more from a subject you want to learn. But under globalization, everything from top to bottom is being consolidated. 3 billion out of 6 are needed in a world with 230 nations. Now, only 300 million out of 7 billion are needed under one supra-nation. If you aren't connected, college is the most expensive lottery you can participate in. "More skilled workers" is simply one of the plethora of excuses the globalist regime uses to mask what they have done for greater profits and omnipotent power.
It's been a long time but I didn't think colleges and universities assigned students to the various fields. They might? They are socialists? But, I thought students still chose their field of study. Surf science? Go for it. French literature? That'll get you a job, sweetheart. How about sociology? I suppose if it's money you're after you could go into Climate Change Rhetoric. When Ronald Reagan was president, colleges that got federal funds were required to tell students the job opportunities in the various fields and I think they were required to tell the new students the success prior students had getting employment in their fields. Of course, this didn't help the sociology, psychology, Black Studies, Women's Studies, Gay Studies, and Freeloader Studies programs so that might have been cancelled by Clinton. Of course, it's not the college that's responsible for your stupid decisions.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2011/04/27/20-most-useless-degrees.html These degrees are useless in todays market yet everyone seems to want to major in one of these stupid programs.
It's not the colleges alone, it's the cost of living, its the ridiculous wages paid to survive in this cost of living, its the best government corporate money can buy, that manipulates the economy to accommodate the blatant cronyism that is destroying this once great nation that has become a plutocracy. 　
Steve jobs taught himself and started in a time where having college education was not the difference between having a job. Also he started his own business its not like he isn't going to hire himself.
I dunno. I'm hearing that more liberal arts majors are getting into med school these days than science majors. And I'm hearing that almost no science majors are getting into law school.
You do realize that there are many in demand liberal arts degrees right? A degree in chemistry for example, or math.
but just because you like the field you are studying in doesn't mean you automatically get a good job!
You're right. But is the only point of college to train for a job? No, I don't think so anyway. If I wanted a job I wouldn't go to college at all. I would go get a (*)(*)(*)(*)ing job. I go to college to LEARN. To hell with the rest.
