Is College Still Worth It?
So legendary rocker, Alice Cooper, is your hero and "School's Out" is your new ringtone? Sing it with me...
School's out for summer
School's out forever
School's been blown to pieces
No more pencils, No more books
No more teachers' dirty looks
Yes, we've all probably dreamt of fleeing our classrooms and their prisonlike walls for the freedom of summer and all it entices us with, but the reality is that upward mobility is our society is contingent upon higher education.
Who can forget former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum's criticism of President Obama's advocacy for higher education? "President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college," Santorum quipped. "What a snob!" Well snob or not, the president is correct in that a college education opens doors for graduates that otherwise would remain closed and according to data released yesterday by the U.S. Census Bureau, possession of a college degree continues to have strong value in terms of lifetime earnings of recipients.
"Great," you say. "I'll go to college. You know, I've always wanted to know how to weave baskets underwater... maybe I'll get a degree in that." "Not so fast," experts say. As it turns out, your choice of major also has long-term implications for the kind of work you will do, whether your employer will most likely be the government or the private sector and your lifetime earnings potential.
Thanks to our friends at Inside Higher Ed, you can read the reports for yourself. ...And then go back to school.
JDJ
