I’m in the same boat. I went to a top tier A list school, and it hadn’t gotten that bad back then. I wouldn’t trade it for anything. At the same time, the tuition I paid was nothing close to what people are paying now. Economically, my degree paid for itself and I graduated debt-free and remain life long debt-free because I worked while going to school. Books back then were also expensive, but nothing like now.
$50k+ A year is a high price that only a few degrees at a handful of schools can be worth, largely due to the connections they provide. I’m all for university education for personal enrichment and fulfillment, and think there’s a lot more to life than money. Still, for the $200-400k that some people pay for their degrees, even most of them don’t think it’s worth it. Many fields don’t really have any relevant expertise, either. If you’re a studies major, in most cases, you’re about as qualified as any of the professors to say just about anything, provided you can support it. Most of those fields aren’t even wrong, as it were, because they’re basically imaginative literature gathered around a theme or topic.
One of my advisers used to say that most other fields sound like collections of things people thought of while waiting for the bus. $300k for that? I’ll pass.
I’m in the same boat. I went to a top tier A list school, and it hadn’t gotten that bad back then. I wouldn’t trade it for anything. At the same time, the tuition I paid was nothing close to what people are paying now. Economically, my degree paid for itself and I graduated debt-free and remain life long debt-free because I worked while going to school. Books back then were also expensive, but nothing like now.
$50k+ A year is a high price that only a few degrees at a handful of schools can be worth, largely due to the connections they provide. I’m all for university education for personal enrichment and fulfillment, and think there’s a lot more to life than money. Still, for the $200-400k that some people pay for their degrees, even most of them don’t think it’s worth it. Many fields don’t really have any relevant expertise, either. If you’re a studies major, in most cases, you’re about as qualified as any of the professors to say just about anything, provided you can support it. Most of those fields aren’t even wrong, as it were, because they’re basically imaginative literature gathered around a theme or topic.
One of my advisers used to say that most other fields sound like collections of things people thought of while waiting for the bus. $300k for that? I’ll pass.