I was lucky enough to be in the last year before the hike up to 9K, I didn't have a career plan but enjoyed physics and trusted that I could find a job at the end of it. There's no way I would...
I was lucky enough to be in the last year before the hike up to 9K, I didn't have a career plan but enjoyed physics and trusted that I could find a job at the end of it.
There's no way I would take that gamble today. Unless you want to persue research or a profession like medicine, I think university has lost a lot of value. At the same time, the reality is most jobs want you to be uni educated, even if it's completely overkill for the role.
There's definitely a disconnect happening here. If you know what job you want, I think going for an apprenticeship or field-relevant certs and proving your interest is going to impress companies more (it's how I got my job in cybersecurity).
Meanwhile wages have been stagnant and university has gotten more expensive. We haven't had the new system long enough to have data about repayment success, but my gut instinct is that it's not good enough. So I wonder what's going to happen in 30 years when the repayment window lapses and millions of graduates have their student debt wiped.
I was lucky enough to be in the last year before the hike up to 9K, I didn't have a career plan but enjoyed physics and trusted that I could find a job at the end of it.
There's no way I would take that gamble today. Unless you want to persue research or a profession like medicine, I think university has lost a lot of value. At the same time, the reality is most jobs want you to be uni educated, even if it's completely overkill for the role.
There's definitely a disconnect happening here. If you know what job you want, I think going for an apprenticeship or field-relevant certs and proving your interest is going to impress companies more (it's how I got my job in cybersecurity).
Meanwhile wages have been stagnant and university has gotten more expensive. We haven't had the new system long enough to have data about repayment success, but my gut instinct is that it's not good enough. So I wonder what's going to happen in 30 years when the repayment window lapses and millions of graduates have their student debt wiped.