There was a time when a college education was worth something. Then college was dumbed down to the level that many of the incoming students need remedial education, GPAs were vastly inflated, and most students at Harvard and Yale began getting A’s
Even.while this was going on, universities became indoctrination factories, fundamentally hostile to males, and incapable of producing quality graduates, but quite capable of charging insane amounts for a semester of classes.
The Left, whose base is now almost entirely college educated, was hoping Americans wouldn’t notice. Oops, they did.
Almost two-thirds of registered voters say that a four-year college degree isn’t worth the cost, according to a new NBC News poll, a dramatic decline over the last decade.
In 2017, U.S. adults surveyed were virtually split on the question — 49% said a degree was worth the cost and 47% said it wasn’t. When CNBC asked the same question in 2013 as part of its All American Economic Survey, 53% said a degree was worth it and 40% said it was not.
Just 33% agree a four-year college degree is “worth the cost because people have a better chance to get a good job and earn more money over their lifetime,” while 63% agree more with the concept that it’s “not worth the cost because people often graduate without specific job skills and with a large amount of debt to pay off.”
The 20-point decline over the last 12 years among those who say a degree is worth it — from 53% in 2013 to 33% now — is reflected across virtually every demographic group. But the shift in sentiment is especially striking among Republicans.
In 2013, 55% of Republicans called a college degree worth it, while 38% said it wasn’t worth it. In the new poll, just 22% of Republicans say the four-year degree is worth it, while 74% say it’s not.
Just 33% agree a four-year college degree is “worth the cost because people have a better chance to get a good job and earn more money over their lifetime,” while 63% agree more with the concept that it’s “not worth the cost because people often graduate without specific job skills and with a large amount of debt to pay off.”
Remarkably, less than half of voters with college degrees see those degrees as worth the cost: 46% now, down from 63% in 2013.
Those without a college degree were about split on the question in 2013. Now, 71% say a four-year degree is not worth the cost, while 26% say it is.
I’m a college graduate and I know a college degree isn’t worth it.
NBC News is focusing on costs because the next step is pushing subsidized ‘free’ college, but that’s how we got here. Shoving everything into the college machine just in time for AI to come along as an extinction event while college debt looks like the subprime mortgage crisis.
College has failed. Or rather it’s been rotted and corrupted into a DEI machine where Marx is more likely to be assigned than any other reading, where students are incapable of reading a novel or answering a basic math question, but know anything is racist.
We don’t need glorified six figure high school diplomas, we need a work ethic, basic education and a culture that works.
