"… Prediction: College in 10 Years…
Mid-tier private colleges cease to exist
Code schools will (continue to) consolidate dramatically
All colleges remaining offer ISAs and many offer ‘get paid to learn’ options
Community College still exists as the low cost higher education option and may even grow in influence and size
A small set of top code schools achieve ‘Ivy League’ status and diversify to offer robust curriculum for developers, data scientists, designers, product managers and more (essentially the tech company talent stack)
Student loan debt collapses in value as defaults skyrocket
Prediction: College in 20 Years…
Ivy League and top research universities are only ‘old guard’ that remain
Community college is free everywhere in the USA as a guaranteed, robust, public secondary education (in many states this is the case already)
All colleges that remain offer both ISAs and ‘you get paid to learn’ options
Code schools look like colleges and colleges look like code schools to the point where they are hard to differentiate" …
Opinion.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-14/college-we-knew-it-broken-usa
Zero Hedge? Seriously? They have an article now predicting that an upcoming magnetic pole reversal will result in the extinction of humanity. To say that site is not credible is a huge understatement.
Credible or not credible, the one thing we can all agree is that the cost of a 4-year undergraduate education is out of control, unaffordable, and putting a lot of people in a very bad and dangerous financial place I just do not know how people do it.
Last year, my daughter only applied to schools known for substantial merit. Some panned out and some did not. The end result was nothing short of amazing. The plan will be the same come Fall for my rising Senior. We will not go into debt for the sake of attending X school. Lots of wonderful schools with wonderful opportunities out there. By the end of the day, it will come down to what these kids do with it.
Why give the site traffic?
Whether credible or not, this article offers interesting ideas.
Here is another recent Zero Hedge colleges article: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-11/50-actual-college-courses-prove-americas-universities-are-training-students-become
Some of the course names are pretty funny. The author is the same as the OP article: “Tyler Durden”, which was the name of Brad Pitt’s character in “Fight Club”.