School debt doesn't HAVE to be crippling

[IndependentProfessor]

[Saz]

Half those schools you will be unemployed from, the other half are free if your parents make less than 80k, or more likely, your parents can afford tuition.

Please show the price of law school, med school, mea, etc. You know, the degrees you actually need to get a career instead of a fast food job.

[Dylan]

You're missing the point though, which is that the system as a whole should be generally more accessible and more affordable. Yes, you can find ways to keep the debt burden low, but it's difficult to do at many institutions and there is simply no reason why, in a highly developed nation like the US, ANY accredited university should be absurdly expensive.

Also worth pointing out that a bunch of schools on that list are ultra-prestigious institutions with huge endowments who give out grant money like it's candy, and have generally richer student bodies so students who don't receive that grant cheddar can usually have their parents pay for it.

[Saz]

[IndependentProfessor]

US News did that one, too. http://www.usnews.com/education/best-gr ... weigh-debt



But, are you suggesting that only grad-school graduates can get "real" jobs?

[IndependentProfessor]

Did none of you click that second link, showing that the 2015 list included very few of the prestigious universities?

[Saz]

[Saz]

[Dylan]

[Winchester]