> It seems that most people who undergo higher education do so with the expectation that it will lead to a "higher" job, and that's magical thinking.
It's also false advertisement.
"Get a degree from us and you'll get a job" is how it's sold to us from the age of elementary school forwards.
Degrees are expensive and this industry earns 100s of billions every year. There is only 1 way they can market a degree to you, and that's to connect it directly with a job.
College loans is one of the crummiest industries in the US.
By manipulating legislature to gain recourse status (even after a personal bankruptcy), accepting government money to finance such futile aspirations, and pushing up the overall price of higher ed, they're in a unique position to be disliked by both liberals and conservatives.
With graduate degrees especially the loan applicant should be required to cover a good portion of their education from their current job. Which will make them at least test the waters (i.e. internship offices and recruiting departments) to see what market applicability their current/future degree has, instead of finding the truth a few years later with a six-digit debt.
I don't think it's really false, just misleading. You very well may land a great job because you were in college. But is so it will because of who you met, not what you learned.
It's also false advertisement.
"Get a degree from us and you'll get a job" is how it's sold to us from the age of elementary school forwards.
Degrees are expensive and this industry earns 100s of billions every year. There is only 1 way they can market a degree to you, and that's to connect it directly with a job.