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Four-Year Degrees Are Becoming Too Overrated
Now days, more students are enrolling in four-year colleges and universities than ever before. In 2002 alone, there were nearly 72,000 enrollments for a four-year college or university, but 80 percent of all jobs in the region require an associate degree or less according to the Pennsylvania Department of Labor. Students are beginning to be misled and feel that their only option after high school is to attend college so they can receive that highly valued four-year degree. ...
In today’s economy, the supply and demand ratios for a four-year degree compared to a technical program or associates degree, is beginning to create shortages along with excess jobs throughout the economy. Because of the high percentage of students attending four-year programs and universities, it’s creating an overwhelming amount of needed jobs, but no one to supply. This is just the opposite for people attending two-year programs or technical schools. ... department of Labor and it found that 56 percent of all high school graduates in Pennsylvania say they plan to attend four-year colleges, but only 23 percent of all jobs nationwide will require four-year degrees or more by 2006. Furthermore, jobs for two-year degrees or less are the fastest growing in the nation. ... However, I do realize a degree can go a long way and that a lot of jobs do require four-year degrees; besides, nobody likes a high school drop out. ...
A lot of times, students enter college with the presumed notion that achieving a four-year degree is best thing they can do for themselves. ... Currently the richest man in the world, Bill Gates, never enrolled in a four-year college (Walker, Replacing Colleges with Hope). ... Gordon’s article “Creating Tomorrow’s Workforce” (The Futurist, August, 2000) that 70 percent of the workers in the coming decades will not need a four-year college degree, but rather, an associate degree or some kind of technical certificate.
Approximate Word count = 1616
Approximate Pages = 6.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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