College for all - right?

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by mistyisjafo

Actually, since I work currently with people in higher education that is already the push. Many kids are being told to consider getting a Masters. The Bachelor degree is now the basic "minimum" for a good job. If you want to be a director, supervisor, manager, etc a Masters is becoming the norm.

What's gonna happen when everyone has their Masters?

BA is becoming the new high school diploma.

[sleepyjeff]

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

What's gonna happen when everyone has their Masters?

BA is becoming the new high school diploma.

Just wait until a BA is the new 8th Grade diploma

[LSPoorEeyorick]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

That's another interesting question: how long did your "4-year degree" take to get? Mine was 4.75 years and that included Summer School three years.

I took between 16 and 18 credit hours per semester, so reasonably I should have been able to complete in 4. But my two degrees were from two different colleges within my university, so I had to do an additional 25 credits more than if I got 2 degrees from 1 college. A hearty thanks to the auditing adviser who didn't realize this until the winter semester my senior year.

All in all, the two took 4 years plus one spring and one summer semester (during which I had to get permission to take more than the permitted amount of credit hours.)

[mistyisjafo]

Jr college can be a good thing, it just depends on the person I suppose. I have a friend who just graduated from CSUF in under 4 years. I have no idea how she did it! It took me 6!!

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by sleepyjeff

My experience was a little different. I started at Portland State University and soon learned that I could save money by taking some of the same courses I needed over at Mt. Hood College (a community college).

A lot of people did that at Cal Poly (using Cuesta College). Which made for an amusing situation where a community college was able to maintain something like 12,000 full time students a city (with no other adjoining cities) of only 37,000.

[BarTopDancer]

Going on 12 years. Bleh.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Add to the pot the fact that there's a new baby boom hitting colleges right now. I've seen multiple stories about many many kids not getting into colleges of their choice simply due to too many kids applying.

[GusGus]

10 years

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Add to the pot the fact that there's a new baby boom hitting colleges right now. I've seen multiple stories about many many kids not getting into colleges of their choice simply due to too many kids applying.

That has been going on for quite some time - it is not a new phenomenon.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

Going on 12 years. Bleh.

You are working full time while doing it - hat's off to you!

Originally Posted by GusGus

10 years

You worked full time while doing (most of) it - now go get a high paying job so I can retire!