Good news bad news on value of degrees

Parents Forum
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<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/20/business/college-degree-required-by-increasing-number-of-companies.html?hpw&_r=4&pagewanted=all&%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/20/business/college-degree-required-by-increasing-number-of-companies.html?hpw&_r=4&pagewanted=all&&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Link doesn’t work for me.</p>

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<p>Degrees by themselves have no value. It is the individual who earned the degree that has value.</p>

<p>Link doesn’t work for me either.</p>

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<p>I was able to read the article. Here is a brief synopsis for those of you unable to read it. Nothing earth shattering. The college degree is becoming the new high school diploma. The article features a law firm in Atlanta. The firm only hires college graduates, even for jobs that don’t require one. This is the “degree inflation” phenomenon. The receptionist earns $38K and has $100K in student debt with a degree in fashion and retail management. “I will probably never see the end of that bill, but I’m not really thinking about it right now,” she said. Maybe she should have thought about it BEFORE she took on $100K in student debt.</p>

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<p>Link worked fine for me. I showed it to my daughter - she’s going to need the 4-year (almost done with AS).</p>

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<p>This is what I’m seeing in the workplace too. It’s ridiculous to require a 4-year degree for a receptionist job or similar. So many advanced positions can be filled by people with 2 year degrees.</p>

<p>We’ve all gone mad.</p>

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<p>She took out 100k to go to a for profit school?</p>

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<p>We’ve been in this mode for a long time. Our secretaries had four-year degrees back in the 1990s.</p>

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<p>bc --</p>

<p>Same here. Company I worked for in 80’s and 90’s hired college grads for nearly all office staff including secretaries, receptionist, and clerks. </p>

<p>Yes, she borrowed $100K to go to a for-profit!</p>

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<p>supply and demand- most of our clerks are college grads and i work in civil service</p>