More Than 40% of Student Borrowers Aren’t Making Payments

Re:More Than 40% of Student Borrowers Aren’t Making Payments by batbomb on Thursday April 07, 2016 @12:30AM (#11444729)

Many (most?) people can get into whatever the main land grant/public research university that exists in their respective state, even more so after a year of community college. In general, almost all of these schools offer a good quality education, especially if you avoid degree-mill majors (e.g. communications, psych, history, economics, etc...) and choose any critical thinking degree (STEM, Philosophy, maybe English/Lit).

If you aren't going to meet that bar, then it's probably not worth it to go to college because you're probably not going to learn much.

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Re:More Than 40% of Student Borrowers Aren’t Making Payments by pmiller2 on Thursday April 07, 2016 @12:41AM (#11444774)

My post was not about getting a good quality education. In fact, my contention is that getting a good education is less relevant than the specific school and major one chooses. For a software developer just out of college, an EECS degree from Berkeley is going to beat a degree in (say) math, physics, or robotics from Podunk State, all else being equal. And, all else is rarely equal, because the Berkeley grad is going to have a way better network than the Podunk State grad.

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