Comments on: A College Degree Does Not Guarantee a Job

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 04:05:55 +0000

Observant: Perhaps the reason you’re having trouble finding work in an English related field is because your written English skills are atrocious.

By: observant

observant — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:02:54 +0000

The people who are scoffing at this girl for suing are no better than the employers who refuse to give college degree holding individuals a chance. I graduate from Hunter College with a degree in English and a 2.5 GPA. Yes, it could have been better but with my parents dying while I was in college, it affected me deeply. I went for my masters, hoping it would make a difference and I have yet to receive a job offer.

What’s the point in obtaining a college degree then? If education means nothing, then why the hell do we have universities/graduate schools then? There’s people out there with degrees and experience and yet can’t find work.

I always though college was to prepare you for entry-level work. How the hell you’re going to gain experience when you’re not given a chance?

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 19:29:04 +0000

The article echoes my own sentiment on the subject matter. I really don’t blame the person in question for sueing. What is college suppose to guarantee? I’ve been out of college for two years with loan debt and no job prospects still. It is basically a catch 22 argument. I’m overqualified to work some jobs because I have a degree. Or, I don’t have the necessary experience to perform another type of job. How do you acquire that experience if you aren’t given a chance? If the career services department at a university isn’t helping a student, what is the point?

By: Loretto

Loretto — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 06:19:58 +0000

If college doesn’t get you a job, then what is college for? Why do you get BAs and MBAs that you pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for, if ultimately it does nothing for you? Why in the world would you even waste four years of your life, on top of the money you pay, going there? With all due respect that is the stupidest comment that I have ever heard “College does not guarantee you a job” what does it guarantee you then! “To better yourself” ? ok fair enough, but you know what ,NO! In this planet MONEY is essential, and if you don’t have it, you cannot live and you cannot better yourself, period, that’s the way it is. You need a job to get money, WORKING is a necessity to survive, do you realize that? And when you pay $80,000 for a college degree, it should work for you!!!!! there is no excuse, experience, what experience?!!! I could do your job with the tip of my finger that’s how easy your job is for me, because that is what college taught me very well, it taught me how to be a WORKER, and be mentally agile, you’re saying you didn’t have to go to college to get six figures bbla bla bla babble babble say whatever you want, I embody my college degree, and I could do what it took you to do your whole life in the matter of SECONDS if it wasn’t for the employers WHO LIKE CHEAP LABOR…guess what NO I DO NOT WORK FOR FREE!!!!!!

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:31:43 +0000

First off… College for the most part has become a financial racket. I have a BS in Info Tech., but to be honest the campuses I went to both at real locations and online were extremely disappointing. Employers realize this and considering the economy we are in they are being forced to look through higher numbers of applicants and what college grads are learning are that those with experience (especially with college backgrounds) trump those fresh out of school. When you have to streamline your operations, you can’t afford to have both those in the know and those fresh out of school which require on-the-job training. I don’t care what university you attended, this is going to be the case. The ones at the top of the list especially are those with a combination of college, experience, and military background. These are proven individuals that have been tested and generally are of great value to employers. That’s the reality, and personally, I think the lawsuit does hold merit. Many of you are being ripped off. If you look at every aspect of hold higher learning institutions are being run, you’d be a fool not to conclude they are squeezing every penny from students, their families, the government, that they can. There is no reason college should cost what it does, especially considering how unprepared it leaves most grads to be able to walk into a job and go to work without further training by the employer.

By: Karma

Karma — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 22:58:02 +0000

I am also in a similar situation. Graduated with double major undergraduate degrees, 3.43 GPA, participated in internships, plus I quit a very good job 3 years ago to get ‘experience’ in the field. College degrees are no better than the paper they are written on. I made triple the annual salary in a field without a college degree. Sadly, I will be going back to that field. To stop any doubt, I am attractive, well groomed, well mannered, and have excellent work ethics and attendance. My college professors rave about my abilities and have given recommendations. I am not goving up yet, but I am very disappointed.
My advice is that unless you are specializing (i.e., nursing, doctor, etc.) in a degree program it makes no sense to finance a college degree. However, if you are getting a free ride through scholarships or grants then it will be a great experience.
One last piece of advise, unless unemployeed do not go to college past the age of 35 because that adds to the difficulty of getting a good job.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:47:56 +0000

Good for her. At least she might bring some awarness to the problems of higher education, which there are many.

So if her grades were 4.0 would that change some of you people from snickering? I doubt it.

Self-obsessed entitlment for her may or may not have anything to do with but its nice to see you decided to make that assumption (another mentality that plagues our culture).

I’m in a similar situation to her, yrs of school and can’t get a job even though my grades are much better than 2.6, and I went into specialized field that is supposedly hurting for employees even in the recession.

In my situation eventhough there was no guarantee I feel like I was sold snake oil I’m not asking for my money back, but if they can’t even help me and others that have graduated why should they continue to be allowed to provide false hope to prospective students who could quite possibly be worse off then me by the time they graduate?

By: ers

ers — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 07:23:15 +0000

Sadly this news item is pointing to deeper economic and educational crisis in this country indicating that our whole process of education, training and employment as well as suicidal trade laws are long overdue for an overhaul.
Example: I took a six month course at a computer school in Calif. that the state government had paid 9k$ for each student laid off from aerospace or other jobs. (regular cost 15k$). The requirement was that the school had to re-employ graduates at good paying jobs and get them back into the working economy. Sadly the school did not achieve the min. limit of graduates re-employed at good jobs after they graduated. The state pulled funding and th e school went bankrupt.

There are many reasons you could find for the failure, but you have to acknowledge that all the groups of people required to work together; government, labor, management, business owners do not work together in this country. Whereas countries like Japan all of them work together, and even have 10 yr plans to take over world markets. They have already done so with cameras, electronics, consumer items and almost the car market.

In the USA corporations will not even take on an R&D product to design, develope and market and distribute unless they can make a profit in 6 months (US corps. more controlled by the stock market and taxes rather than long term innovation.)
WHAT IT PROVES IS WE HAVE TO CHANGE HOW WE DO EVERYTHING IN THIS COUNTRY OR OUR ECONOMY WILL DIE. Countries like Japan and China know this, but we do not have a clue… REMEMBER THE BIGGEST CAUSUALTY IN THIS ECONOMIC WAR IS THE MIDDLE CLASS, IF WE DO NOT LEARN TO CHANGE AND PUT EACH AMERICAN’S BEST INTEREST FIRST OUR ECONOMY WILL COLLAPSE. I GUARANTEE YOU NO AMERICAN WANTS TO LIVE IN A RUSSIAN STYLE OLICHARCHY BUT THIS IS WHERE WE ARE HEADED. FIRST REPEAL NAFTA AND GET US OUT OF THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION AND ELIMINATE ALL SUICIDAL TRADE POLICIES. WE ARE IN AN ECONOMIC WAR.