ROI
Lately, I have been thinking what is the Return on Investment (ROI) for an expensive college education? With the explosion of information available on the internet, how useful is a formal 40K/yr college education from a mid-tier school, really. I think I learned most of my knowledge through work and reading on my own after college. I could not recall applying anything useful that I learned in college even though my focus of studies were in Accounting and Computer Science which is supposed to be the most practical among all other majors. Accounting & tax rules change every year and they are different in different country. Computer languages got obsoleted and simplified in no time. Business Law is all really applying your common sense, as far as I am concerned being a TA in that for 2 years.
So when it's time for my daughter to go to college, would I, or should I be paying 80K/yr for a degree that's not going to be too useful except maybe as one-liner in the resume? I think basic training really starts when you work for different big and small companies.
So when it's time for my daughter to go to college, would I, or should I be paying 80K/yr for a degree that's not going to be too useful except maybe as one-liner in the resume? I think basic training really starts when you work for different big and small companies.
