"#1 | Posted by snoofy"

The issue is plummeting enrollment at all be the top universities because the liberals have destroyed the ROI on college. Now, you don't actually learn much - it is more of less completely basic high school classes + 1 to 2 years of new information. Of the time spend, 50% of more is spent on classes unrelated to your major - but forced to be taken to guarantee employment for the otherwise unemployable liberal arts PhDs. So, you career prospects are poor compared to prior years because employers know they are not getting an employee with much actual knowledge but a sense of self-entitlement that makes training them difficult. Lastly, they have exploded the cost of the education itself.

As I said - industries controlled by the liberal destroy themselves. College is just the latest example. They are in the process of killing Hollywood and the NBA - and they are well on their way to destroying the US government.

"It's called being a well rounded individual.
#5 | Posted by snoofy"

When colleges first began, that was purpose. They made you study Greek classics so you actually understood the thinking unpinning modern society and democratic systems.

That is not what today's college's do. Taking a '3rd world literature class' or even a Anthropology class (after the implementation of the work nonsense) does not make you 'well rounded' - it wastes your time and makes you poor. You are a great example of this.

Let's compare that to Australia - their 3-year bachelor degrees in business focus on - BUSINESS. You are are in and out in 3 years and can choose to take only business related classes. This saves you time and money - and the reality is with 3 years focused solely on business, you get 1 full year of extra training actually in your degree field. 3 years of actual business training is now more of less equivalent to what a US university student would receive with an under graduate degree in business paired with an MBA.

The difference? About 1-2 years in extra tuition paid in US universities that help support the non-marketable PhD graduates. It surely does not help the students.

So, when people complain about their soaring costs of college - the reality is that it is not the cost so much as the ROI due to the actual training you received being watered down by 50% or more with these useless filler classes and employers not increase pay because the graduates are less prepared for the real world.