What's the point of going to College if it doesn't guarantee you a "Job"? (bachelor's, degree)

[Robert473]

What's the point of getting a Bachelor's Degree if it doesn't guarantee you a job?

Why go to school for 5 years , graduate with a college degree , and not be guaranteed a job?

[slamont61]

Skipping a degree doesn't guarantee you a job, just lower pay.


Maybe if you don't waste your education on a Liberal Arts degree or some other useless program you might have a better shot at it.


There are no guarantees in life besides death and taxes.

[fishbrains]

Education for the purpose of gaining knowledge? An opportunity to meet a wide variety of people? An environment where you can explore a wide variety of interests? Developing your smiles in an academic discipline and critical thinking? Beer pong?

[ccm123]

The correlation between education and unemployment is highlighted:

https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2015/un...april-2015.htm

[LakeLifePA]

Five years? Most degree programs are four and easily attainable if you go during summers in three.

[Serious Conversation]

College was originally supposed to be about an education, not a job training program.

[CSD610]

Originally Posted by slamont61

Skipping a degree doesn't guarantee you a job, just lower pay.
Maybe if you don't waste your education on a Liberal Arts degree or some other useless program you might have a better shot at it.
There are no guarantees in life besides death and taxes.

Getting a degree does not guarantee higher pay no matter which degree you get.
OP: There is nothing that is a guarantee in life except one's descent into death moment by moment.

[maverick5575]

having a degree doesnt guarantee higher pay. Im sick and tired of that fallacy

[Rabrrita]

Being born doesn't guarantee you of a job! That's why we need it so that at birth, a job is assigned and for those without jobs, squish!

[Wartrace]

A friend of mine's kid is going to a very expensive college in Boston to study "film". Clearly she doesn't expect it to result in a job. My guess is she just wanted a general education.