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Re:US college enrollments are falling, except for graduate d... by nickff on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @01:52AM (#24624516)
College isn't about job training, it's more about demonstrating that one is good prospective employee (signalling).[1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Case_Against_Education#:...

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Re:US college enrollments are falling, except for graduate d... by andreev_io on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @04:01AM (#24625188)
Perhaps the more original source for this idea is in Michael Spence’s 1973 paper on Job Market Signaling:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_(economics)

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Re:US college enrollments are falling, except for graduate d... by swiley on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @09:20AM (#24627445)
Really? I remember half my capstone classmates that couldn't code or focus for more than five minutes on a project. All of them had good grades of course.
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Re:US college enrollments are falling, except for graduate d... by nickff on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @02:18PM (#24631172)
Imagine what the people who can't make it to their capstone are like...
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Re:US college enrollments are falling, except for graduate d... by logicOnly on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @09:39AM (#24627653)
This is a huge issue colleges face. Cheating let's these people get by.

Engineering has a few extra math classes that weed out most of these types..

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