According to the Daily Caller, freshman enrollment at public universities decreased by 8.5% in 2024 compared to 2023, while private enrollment dropped by 6.5% in the same span of time. This comes despite the fact that freshman enrollment rose slightly in 2023 compared to 2022, with a mere 0.8% increase.
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Son is driving a school bus getting his time in to get a CDL Class A. School paid for training so win win.
ReplyDeleteKind of worthless reporting without any reference to the census. I think that the number of kids is lower overall, not just the ones electing to stay sane and keep their money.
ReplyDeleteWhy would you want to have a multi-hundred thousand dollar loan that cannot ever be discharged, which you will spend the rest of your life paying off. Younger students seeing the older college students ripped off this way are now questioning the "college required" mantra.
ReplyDeleteI've told people that myself. Go into HVAC or welding and avoid IT. It's been first diluted by H1B, and then offshoring. The payoff for the effort & expense of college just isn't there.
Mike Rowe has established several high schools.
ReplyDeleteOne of my nephews is in trade school for HVAC. In the first week after enrollment, he received three bonafide job offers. Lowest starting pay $22/hr.
I work with several young fellows who dropped out of college after it stayed online post 2020 with no reduction in tuition. They are making $80k+ and forming families after quickly paying off their student loans. The cost of higher education, which is not always necessary, can be a huge drag on people progressing with the lives. The key seems to be making people aware of the avenues available to them and being supportive of an end goal where people thrive. I have three boys, and have made sure to keep their options open so that whatever their best course, I can launch them well into their futures.
ReplyDeleteTrade school leaves the student with little to no debt and a very good chance at making a very good living. Colleges and universities leave the student with a small chance at a very good living and a good chance of having a very high debt and little chance to be able to repay it.
ReplyDeleteOur local Voc-Tech high school and trades-oriented Community College have seen full enrollment over the past few years. I was concerned that as older tradesmen retired there wouldn't be any young people entering the trades to replace them. That doesn't seem to be the case around here.
ReplyDeleteMy son, a college grad, has received his EPA certs for HVAC and is working to get his CDL. (He didn't go into debt to get his college degree, only attending one semester a year while working on a farm which is how he paid for his education.) He's making a lot more money than a lot of his peers with college degrees who are still paying off their student loans.
I've a granddaughter 20 sitting on her ass living off her parents because she was raised to think she is a princess. The grandson, a senior, appears to want something out of life. I've suggested some type of computer science school or the military and appaently those are really bad ideas. Both kids were/are straight A's and had college courses in high school.
ReplyDeleteRemember back in the 1990s when it was pushed by everyone that you needed to go to college for some type of STEM degree? i jgot a 4 year Bachelors degree in accounting, absolutely no need to get anything higher. Screw the higher programs, screw CPA crap, screw Intersectional Underwater Basket Weaving degrees. No one cares about that garbage. Tech degrees are great if that is your interest, not putting those down at all.
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