The Problem with College and the Value of a Degree
Posted on October 12th, 2008
Marty Nemko wrote a piece for the Chronicle of Higher Education that's worth reading as you consider what you want out of college.
The piece is a little depressing, but it contains some sage advice. Point number one: large research universities are not the place to go if you're looking for quality instruction and a strong student support system. The big land grant universities make their money from research and see students as more of a liability than an asset. If you're in the bottom half of your high school class in GPA or in ACT/SAT scores, there's a good changes (better than 50%) that you won't finish on schedule - or at all…
The piece looks in some detail at the problems with higher education. They're problems you can avoid if you know what you're looking for in a school. It also makes some recommendations that could improve the quality of higher education. Sadly, policy makers will probably never implement them.
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