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Originally Posted by MattyC
- If logic says that the entry-level jobs for FA/Arts degrees are less available/lucrative, wouldn't that be more of a reason to have that education be cheaper? If they come out with $20k in student debt and can't find a job to support paying it back, we are automatically handi-capping that person.
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I'd take the opposite approach. Fund the actual useful degrees like Science and Engineering so more spots are available and the best and brightest are able to attend regardless of the cost.
If you want to take a frivolous degree you pay the full cost of that degree, that should separate out the people who are actually dedicated from the people who are there just to be there.
Student loans need to be restricted more, I believe its the number one factor causing tuition to rise well above inflation. We need to have an honest conversation about who should go to University and who it's not meant for. As someone who graduated a couple years ago I have almost a dozen friends who are still in school floating through meaningless classes. They went to University just because it was "the thing to do after high school". Cheap student debt allowed them to go and not take it seriously, and now they've wasted 7 years of their lives and tens of thousands of government dollars for nothing. Adding on to that, a lot of them went to University out of town for no reason and are now crying about how much debt they racked up. I'm sorry, but you had your fun studying nothing and partying it up, and now the bill is due. I imagine that a lot of the people bemoaning their student debt have similar circumstances.
Universities keep charging more and people keep paying it because cheap debt is plentiful, its what caused university to go from something my parents easily paid for in the 80's to something that is much less affordable now. I fail to see how relaxing debt terms or further subsidizing degress that will almost surely have extremely low post graduate employment rates helps that more.