>Employability was their biggest concern. Yes, community colleges often have better pipelines into jobs than 4-year schools. Not always, and not for all progra

>Employability was their biggest concern. Yes, community colleges often have better pipelines into jobs than 4-year schools. Not always, and not for all programs, but for programs where you're learning a trade--usually an AAS degree-- it's common. Though unfortunately AAS degrees usually have fewer courses that can be applied to a 4-year degree down the road. It's a trade off: less expensive & faster path to employability vs. longer term career growth. If you find yourself needing/wanting the full degree later on then on average you'll end up taking more coursework than if you started on a 4 year track. Anyway, community colleges are highly underrated for this. Lots of people go to 4 year schools out of inertia, not knowing what they want to do and not particularly motivated by anything except social pressure. Much better to figure things out during a relatively inexpensive year or two at a community college in that case. If nothing clicks for you, track into a trades program you can live with to pay the bills. If something clicks, you can be do the same with it, or transfer the work done so far into a 4 year school to finish off.