What’s Your College’s Graduation Rate?

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(10-17-2023, 08:26 PM)Stewy Wrote: College is far from a scam.  Justify your own position however you like, but going to college and getting a degree that provides a viable job skill, in an in demand job market, is an excellent way to go.  The problem as i see it are people paying 60-300k$ for worthless liberal arts degrees that will leave them without a job to pay back the bills.  Better to go to a trade school if you can't handle a STEM degree IMO.

My wife as a nurse with a BSN (no masters) makes over 6 figures with just 10 years of experience.  My daughter with a Mechanical Engineering degree from U of Houston, with only a 3.1 GPA makes almost as much as my wife and she just had her 1 year anniversary on her job.  She works for SLB as a Cement Engineering Supervisor on rigs out in West Texas.

Get a degree that provides with a viable job skill in  a job market that is desperate for manpower, and you'll make a killing.  On the contrary, if you go to college to get an Art History or International Studies (with no plan to go to graduate school for either), then you're a F'ing moron and deserve to be saddled with debt the rest of your life.  Better to go to Vocational School and become a mechanic.

Oh.....to actually answer the question.

Miami University - 80.6% graduation rate, provides 137 different degrees and considered one of the most prestigious public schools in the country.  One of the schools called a "Public Ivy".  One of the foremost public colleges in the country to get an undergraduate business degree, to either immediately get a job (finance, marketing, etc.) or go on to higher education (Med, Law, MBA, etc.).

West Virginia University - 60.7% graduation rate provides only 87 total degrees, and considered one of the foremost party schools in the nation.  Was the first school that Playboy put in the "Party School" Hall of Fame because they won every year when they ranked the party schools.  Yet they have a renowned education department, Law School and Medical School.

And no my grades were not stellar to get into either school.  3.4 in HS to get into Miami and 3.2 at Miami to get into WVU.

I go to all this detail above, because they are the polar opposite of public schools, yet both provide degrees that generate excellent jobs.  Personally, I got Geology degrees from both schools, neither of which is known as a renowned Geology school.  You don't have to attend the best schools or get the best grades to get a good job.  Just don't get a shyty degree.

Nice, a fellow Miami University grad. I'd imagine there are many of us on this board.