College Degree
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Galloway: Two-Thirds of Young Americans Never Earn a College Degree
“Two thirds of our kids do not end up with a college degree.”
Calacanis: College cost growth outpaced entry-level salary growth 10x over 20 years
“Increases in the cost of college degrees have outpaced The wage growth of entry-level salaries by 10 X over the last 20 years.”
Calacanis: $800 online courses provide more job value than college degrees
“People go to school, they go 50,250 thousand dollars in debt, and then what I hear from young people all the time is they go take a course afterwards, and that course for 800 dollars does more from them in the marketplace and getting jobs than the degree did”
Streeter says college degrees only matter for first jobs, not career trajectory
“That degree is gonna get you your first job, maybe your second, but probably not even that as much. It's these other things that you have learned how to do that really make you capable in the workplace.”
Friedberg: Return on investment for many college degrees is negative
“The ROI for many of these degrees has been negative. You make less money than you would have if you were actually in the workforce earning an on-the-ground experience and progressing your career.”
Sacks: 37-point party preference gap exists between college-educated and non-educated
“There's a 37 point gap in party preference just based on one variable, which is whether you are professional class or working class, meaning college degree or no college degree.”
College Degrees Are Almost Zero Predictor of Engineering Competence
“Whether or not someone has a college degree is almost a zero predictor for how good they are as an engineer and how good they are as a designer.”
Mac Conwell broke into venture capital without a degree or finance background
“I'm like, ok, I don't have a college degree, I don't have a finance background, but I know startups, and I know a lot of people in Baltimore,”
Greenblatt: Alternative certifications will iterate to match college degrees
“And that's what I think would happen with alternative certification. That these standards that were developed over time, companies would figure out what works well in lieu of this college degree, what tests or courses or whatever you have to do. Some of the te…”