RE: Higher Education in the USA - Ripoff or Merely a Lost Cause?
I think that the answer to your question
Is Higher Education in the USA - Ripoff or Merely a Lost Cause?
is YES.
They're doing it all wrong.
for one thing Gender Studies, Peace Studies, William Shake Spear Studies, Dance, Philosophy, Disruption Studies, Theater Arts, Fine Art, Religious Studies, English Lit. French Food, Creative Writing, Golf Management, OneLaptop per Child , Fashion Design, Art History, African American Studies, Rennaissance Study, Winemaking, Antrhopology, Interior Design, Travel and Tourism, Film, Music Therapy, Psychology, Human Geography, Photography,Music, Fine Arts, Social Work, Ancient Greek, Sociology, Political Science, Hospitality Management, Journalism, Archeology, History, Geography, Communications, Hotel and Resturant Management, Astronomy Sciences, Law,International Studies, Economics, Feminist theory,
(pant pant...and the list goes ON)
in fact any college course than ends in studies is pretty much useless for finding a job.
Every major listed costs WAAAAAAY TOO much for what you get in college. the bang for the buck correlation is BAD.... It's either a hobby or better learned (much cheaper and much more applicable) OJT.
If it's not STEM it's a hobby.
are you willing to spend most of your life paying back the tuition for a hobby?
(and all of the above is WITHOUT even taking automation into consideration)
The people pursuing degrees in your list also seem to include a disproportionately large number of "eternal students;" the ones who are currently "getting their 3rd PhD," largely as a means to avoid dealing with life on any realistic level.
I swear, half those degrees were the result of some rich alum needing to satisfy their precocious kid... "We'll donate $10M to your endowment fund if you'll create a degree called 'Beanie Baby Studies'"
Money talks.
let em.
as long as I don't have to pay for ANY of it with tax money.
I think perhaps the "eternal students" know they'll never claw their way out of debt so they stay in the institution to defer payments, perhaps in the hope that one day they'll die before they need to pay up.
You almost had it! Except now a day you would want called it CryptoKitties because that’s the sudden new fad. Excuses me while I go face palm for a while slightly in a corner.