Second thought: these articles seem to be everywhere these days. The message should not be "a college degree is a bad investment" because clearly that is untrue. It is a terrible idea, however, to run up a huge amount of debt to go to a school like Temple or Tulane. That's just not sensible.
WRS said:Second thought: these articles seem to be everywhere these days. The message should not be "a college degree is a bad investment" because clearly that is untrue. It is a terrible idea, however, to run up a huge amount of debt to go to a school like Temple or Tulane. That's just not sensible.
Right, or even go the CC route for a couple years.
The only person on that article that can really justify the debt is the first one (the engineering guy, and he should be able to pay it off relatively quickly unless he's got poor money management skills). It's just stupid to put yourself 140k in the hole to get a poli sci degree from Tulane.
Right, or even go the CC route for a couple years.
The only person on that article that can really justify the debt is the first one (the engineering guy, and he should be able to pay it off relatively quickly unless he's got poor money management skills). It's just stupid to put yourself 140k in the hole to get a poli sci degree from Tulane.
I couldn't justify telling anybody to go to Wake if they could get into UNC.
The engineering guy is in a shitty situation.... $65k is not enough to put a dent in $185k in debt