Endless Purple
Full Member
It's stupid to spend $60k/year + to pursue an elementary education degree, or a psychology degree, or a criminal justice degree, or a sociology degree, or, or, or.......
They aren't worthless majors, but you don't need a $250,000 TCU degree to go be a 4th grade teacher. You just need A degree, from just about any 4-year school that offers that program.
So are you saying TCU should close out all programs that are not premed, engineering, or finance?
My point was more about the video above seeming to push students into specific high wage jobs only while not balancing low paying jobs. A better system is one that allows students to fit into majors they can succeed in and that are needed in society. One of the main reasons we have schools is to provide the variety of skill sets needed in the economy as a whole, not to provide students a way to get rich. Thus a method of balanced costs to meet potential income - again kinda like health insurance is supposed to do.
edit - as far as TCU. The school needs to have a way to balance out the different degrees with financial support for students. The school is getting away from its roots in the middle economy students.