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Originally Posted by valo403
Degrees are required for more and more jobs than ever before, so demand certainly isn't dropping. I think your second thought is more accurate, people are pushing on into graduate programs in order to stand out, and taking on HUGE debt in the process, and finding that there aren't jobs after that either. Some of that is due to naivety, but schools have often obscured the reality of what lies beyond graduation and sold students a dream that was never going to happen.
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I think it would be reasonable for University's to be required to have someone survey their former students and publish an average income three years after graduating for each type of degree/major.
Then if someone decides to take Bachelors of Personal Fulfillment, that's fine, but at least someone warned them in black and white what the economic outcome is likely to be. So many times you see advertisments talking about how students will learn "critical thinking" etc in a program and how valuable a skill that is. Maybe so, but I bet some would make different choices if they understood they would make 3x more if they went to SAIT and became an electrician.