Re:How the Great Recession Proved the Value of a College Degree
by neutronicus on Friday August 17, 2012 @03:22AM
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Engineering degrees require access to expensive equipment and software. Autodidacticism won't magically make a gamma-ray spectrometer appear in your basement.
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Re:How the Great Recession Proved the Value of a College Degree
by InclinedPlane on Friday August 17, 2012 @03:32AM
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How many undergraduate college students ever interact with a gamma-ray spectrometer? Indeed, how many ever come into contact with any equipment that is outside the realm of access to an individual studying on their own? Many perhaps, but as a percentage of all college graduates, not that much. Not even all STEM majors require such specialty equipment, and STEM students are a relative minority in college enrollments.