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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
It occurred to me that tuition and University factor in this as well, but perhaps not in the way some might think, when I left school almost no one went to Uni' around 5% if I remember for the mid seventies, you left school at 16 or 17 and went straight to work, by 22 you were expected to be into a career path.
If you are part of the 35% that go to University now at 19 you not only burden yourself with debt but also lose 4 years of earning, and most people then at 23 or 24 still need a couple of years to work out what they are going to do for a living, that has to impact your ability to save for a house assuming you aren't taking a fairly specialised degree that will pay itself off within a couple of years.
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plus how many jobs are really available for the thousands of debt-ridden graduates every year?
the undergraduate degree is becoming the new HS diploma, expect it costs 40K to get one.