<p>Is it reasonable to assume that the figures for graduates after 10 years include a degree...or is it a stand-alone Mac B.A/S? Just curious.</p>
<p>And I'm definitely getting an advanced degree. ^^</p>
<p>Lately, I have taken to asking random people about their educational background. I asked the car salesman at the local Mercury dealer (mechanical engineering). The desk clerk at a rental car company (communications), the clerk at our local camping store (business major - hoping to work for the state govt and on a waiting list for his dream job at the state capital), personal trainer (kinesiology). One has to hope that education has intrinsic value because the payoff in terms of salary is not necessarily there, and I'm not convinced that these jobs require a college degree.</p>
<p>What worries me is that we are not educating students in high school to read and write well. That used to be the goal of high school and I hear posters saying that it now requires a college degree to do that. I like to think that I write reasonably well just from my high school education. I did not take a single English, history, psychology, anthropology, or philosophy course in college. My degree was in engineering with distribution requirements satisfied through economics and French courses and one history of art course.</p>
<p>So liberal arts major and a MBA is good, right? Anything with a MBA is hire-able...I'd hope</p>