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10% increase is a lot lower than I anticipated what with all the talk about a B.S. being the barrier for entry these days.
by asdff 11mo ago
10% increase is a lot lower than I anticipated what with all the talk about a B.S. being the barrier for entry these days.
- tobyjsullivan 11mo ago20% to 33% is not a 10% increase, if that’s what you’re referring to. That’s a 65% increase.
- Spartan-S63 11mo agoEven still, over more than two decades, only a ten percentage point increase is still somewhat mind-blowing. As someone who grew up upper middle class in a wealthier suburban area, I lived in a bubble where the vast majority of people I went to high school with went off to college and got bachelors degrees. To me, it seemed that that was the norm for most Americans, but that's far from reality.
- asdff 11mo ago65% increase seems big but this also means only 13% more adult americans are degree holders which seems remarkably paltry to me after almost 40 years of "thou shall go to college" being preached to highschoolers.
- jchallis 11mo agoOnly about half of Americans who go to college finish their degree. The saddest part of the college debt crisis are the kids with debt and no degree to pay it off.
- SequoiaHope 11mo agoCollege got very expensive. If it hadn’t I’m sure we’d see higher numbers.
- asdff 11mo agoI think that depends on if you go out of state or in state. My alma mater has frozen in state tuition for at least 10 years now, maybe longer. Plenty of flagship in state schools are only around 12k-15k a year. In a world where you can now crack 15 an hour unskilled now while living with the parents over the summer you can probably cover a lot of that almost like it was in ye olden times.
- SequoiaHope 11mo agoSeems like things have been relatively flat for the last decade, but costs are roughly double what they were 30 years ago. https://www.npr.org/2025/11/20/nx-s1-5600854/college-costs-have-risen-dramatically-in-the-last-20-years-heres-why https://www.npr.org/2025/11/20/nx-s1-5600854/college-costs-h...
- rendaw 11mo agoGP means a "plus ~10%" not a "times ~1.10" increase.
- foundddit 11mo agoApparently nearly half of college students drop out. [1] That gives us most people going to college, but a significant portion not graduating. [1] https://educationdata.org/college-dropout-rates https://educationdata.org/college-dropout-rates
- red-iron-pine 11mo agostats also show that the average student is now taking longer to graduate, easing towards ~6 years instead of 4 takeaway is probably that a lot of not-really-qualified students are going to 4-year schools and probably shouldn't.