The latest NBC News poll shows two-thirds of registered voters down on the value proposition of a degree. A majority said degrees were worth the cost a dozen years ago.

Americans have grown sour on one of the longtime key ingredients of the American dream.

Almost two-thirds of registered voters say that a four-year college degree isn’t worth the cost, according to a new NBC News poll, a dramatic decline over the last decade.

Just 33% agree a four-year college degree is “worth the cost because people have a better chance to get a good job and earn more money over their lifetime,” while 63% agree more with the concept that it’s “not worth the cost because people often graduate without specific job skills and with a large amount of debt to pay off.”

  • flamiera@kbin.melroy.org
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    20 hours ago

    Oh please…you act like everything art-related is strictly funneled through a college system when there’s thousands of artists out there who practice art.

    And philosophy is about as good as just trying to prove someone wrong in a fruitless argument on the internet.

    Who’re you trying to fool?

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      19 hours ago

      Comparing a rigorous Philosophy degree to an internet argument is something said only by the uneducated.

      Philosophy is the spearhead of science, most scientific breakthroughs begin first with philosophy.