I can’t help but feel that colleges 2 year or 4 year are getting out of control with the price of tuition as well as what they are asking academically. I am going to a 2 year and am going to go for a sonography certificate program once I am done my AS and then later go back to a 4 year for a BA in radiology.
I love going to college don’t get me wrong but the prices are ridiculous. My college just raised tuition I am not even sure how much. I have been working my butt off for three years and I am almost done but an associates degree is only supposed to take two years. I will be done in 3 1/2 and I went full time ever semester and took classes in the summer, and I am in classes this summer.
Nobody I know in college for an associates finished in two years, and hardly anyone in a four year college finished in four years.
I am not looking forward to getting student loans when I go to a four year attt alllll. I mean why should it be the cost of a frikkin house or car to go to college and get a career.
If everyone protested and refused to accept these circumstances then the colleges would be forces to change. I mean the cost to sit in a classroom for two days out of the week cost 300-400 dollars a semester and 1000-2000 in a four year. And we STILL have to buy our own books I mean shouldn’t that be included what are they doing with all this money?
I also feel that if something says its gonna take two years it should take two frikkin years. I work my butt off to maintain my high GPA. My family makes to much to apply for finical aid but in reality they a business owners and some years are better then others their salary is all over the place. I have had some AMAZING teachers and then again I have had some teachers who think their job is to work you to the core, you know the power hungry teacher type who act like ten page essays in two weeks is nothing. And for some reason when you take multiple classes teachers always make the due dates on the same days… test, essays, midterms, finals… like really I spend more time on course compass then I do on my social networks lol.
If I am going into health care do I really need history no I don’t I already learned it in high school and as much as I like history that was 300 plus an 80 dollar book down the drain for a piece of paper that says I am smart enough to apply for the sonography program.
Uh I am so MAD, who is with me?
Some economists have speculated that education will be the next debt bubble that sinks the economy in the future, once we’ve recovered from the 2008 housing bubble.
Like the housing bubble, this is entirely an American problem. See, the USA has always been more right-wing and conservative than the rest of the developed world. That’s why it took the gov’t until just recently to start taking action towards universal healthcare, and it’s why post-secondary education isn’t subsidized as much as it is in other countries.
In most wealthy countries, the vast majority of universities are public (ie. government funded), and they receive a lot of funding, so tuition is comparatively low. Some European countries even offer education for free, completely subsidized by the government.
The USA, in true American form, crafted this two-leveled system where there are private schools that have to charge hilarious amounts of money because they don’t get govenrment funding, and there are some public schools that receive less funding than other countries. In Canada, my degree is costing me about $5400 a year…in the US, even public colleges are usually closer to $10,000 per year.
So, go yell at the government to stop spending a billion dollars a day on war, and start spending more on post-sec education subsidies.
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