College enrollment rates are dropping, especially among low-income students
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Re: College enrollment rates are dropping, especially among low-income students
#2Very limited data provided in the article, and no subgroup analysis by college type or major or other demographic variables. It is more worrying, to me, if all low income future engineering students skip college to become line workers. It is less worrying if the low income students are deciding not to take 40k in debt for an English degree from a for-profit college they are unlikely to graduate from.
Re: College enrollment rates are dropping, especially among low-income students
#3why does everyone need to go to college?
why can't we have a apprentice/trade track for people who don't want to waste time with college (like in most other countries)?
Re: College enrollment rates are dropping, especially among low-income students
#4There's got to be a point where prices are high enough and job prospects are poor enough that people will finally start questioning the "get a degree" wisdom.
Re: College enrollment rates are dropping, especially among low-income students
#5Could this have anything to do with the crackdown on for-profit (and often poor quality) universities that used to vacuum up low income students?
Re: College enrollment rates are dropping, especially among low-income students
#6why does everyone need to go to college? why can't we have a apprentice/trade track for people who don't want to waste time with college (like in most other countries)?
>for people who don't want to waste time with college
s/time/time and money/
Re: College enrollment rates are dropping, especially among low-income students
#7There's got to be a point where prices are high enough and job prospects are poor enough that people will finally start questioning the "get a degree" wisdom.
I don't discount this theory, i've wondered it myself a few times in recent years. However, i'm not sure of the data to back that theory. The article itself says that the job situation has improved in the US. The question is around the opportunities that open and close based on having a degree (eg. over qualification vs under qualification vs expectation).
It also mentions that the data is from 0.1% of students. While that's still a fair number, there's room for error.
Re: College enrollment rates are dropping, especially among low-income students
#8why does everyone need to go to college? why can't we have a apprentice/trade track for people who don't want to waste time with college (like in most other countries)?
We can. We don't. Yet.
Re: College enrollment rates are dropping, especially among low-income students
#9why does everyone need to go to college? why can't we have a apprentice/trade track for people who don't want to waste time with college (like in most other countries)?
>like in most other countries
For most of the world, with "trade track", you make "ends meat" for the country (developing world included).
That's why you see such a mindblowing competition for Chinese students to graduate from good colleges.
Re: College enrollment rates are dropping, especially among low-income students
#10why does everyone need to go to college? why can't we have a apprentice/trade track for people who don't want to waste time with college (like in most other countries)?
>like in most other countries For most of the world, with "trade track", you make "ends meat" for the country (developing world included). That's why you see such a mindblowing competition for Chinese students to graduate from good colleges.
There are many marginal college students in the US who would be far better off becoming plumbers, electricians, or auto techs than going to college, IMO.
Problem is many people look down on these blue-collar skilled trades and college is seen as the way up.