You can learn exactly the same things with accreditation or without it. Especially now that there are fewer standards of excellency. Are there any jobs for the many college graduates everywhere that still are being pumped out, with all of their degrees? I don’t think there are.
My Son will graduate from College this May, was recruited to a company a year ago, and will start work in June. You will not be hired for his kind of work without a Degree either, at least not in the United States. The jobs are out there and many of the better ones require the Accreditation.
That might be true, but a lot of unaccredited institutions are that way because they’re no good.
I don’t think there are.
There are. Here’s some anecdata: two of my kids went to college straight after high school. Both got jobs within a month of graduating and are still employed. One graduated with an arts degree.
The other kid started a small business, did great at that until Covid killed demand. He then apprenticed in a trade, made some decent money at that, and has now gone back to college to move up the food chain from his chosen trade. He’s already got offers.
So I won’t overgeneralize, but I can confidently say that it still works for some. And, when I graduated a very long time ago, it wasn’t a cakewalk then, either. A degree was never a guarantee of a job. That was a myth. I got my degree at the start of a recession and classmates of mine who were smart, hardworking people, struggled for months or years. I lucked my way into a job because I discovered that an interviewer was the cousin of my college advisor. They talked, and I ended up learning some very interesting tech and doing world travel.
I’m not saying there are no jobs. Your specific example proves this. I’m saying that the percentage of graduates getting jobs in their chosen field is rather low, while colleges and universities throughout the land keep pumping out graduates.
You can learn exactly the same things with accreditation or without it. Especially now that there are fewer standards of excellency. Are there any jobs for the many college graduates everywhere that still are being pumped out, with all of their degrees? I don’t think there are.
You can, but accreditation aims to prove that you have.
My Son will graduate from College this May, was recruited to a company a year ago, and will start work in June. You will not be hired for his kind of work without a Degree either, at least not in the United States. The jobs are out there and many of the better ones require the Accreditation.
That might be true, but a lot of unaccredited institutions are that way because they’re no good.
There are. Here’s some anecdata: two of my kids went to college straight after high school. Both got jobs within a month of graduating and are still employed. One graduated with an arts degree.
The other kid started a small business, did great at that until Covid killed demand. He then apprenticed in a trade, made some decent money at that, and has now gone back to college to move up the food chain from his chosen trade. He’s already got offers.
So I won’t overgeneralize, but I can confidently say that it still works for some. And, when I graduated a very long time ago, it wasn’t a cakewalk then, either. A degree was never a guarantee of a job. That was a myth. I got my degree at the start of a recession and classmates of mine who were smart, hardworking people, struggled for months or years. I lucked my way into a job because I discovered that an interviewer was the cousin of my college advisor. They talked, and I ended up learning some very interesting tech and doing world travel.
I’m not saying there are no jobs. Your specific example proves this. I’m saying that the percentage of graduates getting jobs in their chosen field is rather low, while colleges and universities throughout the land keep pumping out graduates.