Sarah147 Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 (edited) [url="http://financiallyfit.yahoo.com/finance/article-113840-11763-4-how-to-get-a-106000-college-education-for-free?ywaad=ad0035&nc"]Here[/url] Interesting.... Edited January 28, 2012 by JoyfulLife Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basilisa Marie Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 It's also just opened, and only accepting about 75 students for next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arfink Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 I wonder if the degree will be worth anything to employers in that case. Of course, it's a liberal arts degree... Given a yearly tuition of roughly $28,000 and they only are paying for 3 years worth, that means you still pay room and board AND your fourth year. Sounds like a clever way to compete with community colleges. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basilisa Marie Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 [quote name='arfink' timestamp='1327775410' post='2376570'] I wonder if the degree will be worth anything to employers in that case. Of course, it's a liberal arts degree... Given a yearly tuition of roughly $28,000 and they only are paying for 3 years worth, that means you still pay room and board AND your fourth year. Sounds like a clever way to compete with community colleges. [/quote] Hey, don't be hating on the liberal arts. They're a Catholic invention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arfink Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 [quote name='Basilisa Marie' timestamp='1327778531' post='2376601'] Hey, don't be hating on the liberal arts. They're a Catholic invention. [/quote] Not hatin' just saying that liberal arts degrees don't get you hired out of college. Good thing this one is cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basilisa Marie Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 [quote name='arfink' timestamp='1327780777' post='2376622'] Not hatin' just saying that liberal arts degrees don't get you hired out of college. Good thing this one is cheap. [/quote] And last time I checked, more people from my college's graduating class got jobs through family and friend connections than by what they majored in. Humanities OR technical fields. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG45 Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 [quote name='Basilisa Marie' timestamp='1327782995' post='2376641'] And last time I checked, more people from my college's graduating class got jobs through family and friend connections than by what they majored in. Humanities OR technical fields. [/quote] Ditto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innocent Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 [quote name='Basilisa Marie' timestamp='1327782995' post='2376641'] And last time I checked, more people from my college's graduating class got jobs through family and friend connections than by what they majored in. Humanities OR technical fields. [/quote] I suppose this phenomenon is more prevalent in certain places than in others. In my case, I can count on the fingers of one hand, and still have one or two fingers left over, the number of people, (considering classmates, both from school and college, as well as my acquaintances) who got jobs through family and friend connections than by what they majored in. Of course, if by "friend connections" you also mean to include the situation where a particular company is impressed by our seniors who got placed there and thus favourably considers the CVs of the students of my batch that the aforesaid seniors forwarded to the company, then I'd probably have to correct my above estimate. However, my pool of samples is not as balanced as yours since most of my friends are in technical fields. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basilisa Marie Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 Innocent - I graduated May 2011 from a small, private, Catholic liberal arts type (that is, has a core curriculum with more meat than gen-ed credits) college in Maryland, so that's where I'm coming from. Ignoring the people who went onto grad school or medical school, I know more people that ended up getting a job that had nothing really to do with what they majored in than those who got a job directly related to their major. Most of those people got jobs due to personal connections (some, but not all, like the internship-to-job-type scenario I think you're describing). My school is also a big feeder into the FBI and other government jobs. Granted, my pool might be skewed as well, seeing as it doesn't matter[i] quite [/i]as much what you major in at a school with a strong liberal arts core curriculum, because you've taken more classes outside your field than if you had gone to another kind of college. I suppose if one didn't go to a liberal arts school, then it does matter more what you major in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anastasia13 Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 Do they have a graduate program? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basilisa Marie Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 [quote name='Light and Truth' timestamp='1327818110' post='2376875'] Do they have a graduate program? [/quote] Can't tell, as their site is down due to the HUGE amounts of traffic they're getting from the article, lol. But in case you're wondering, tuition for grad programs usually is a completely separate monster from undergrad stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Vega Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 [quote][color=#000000][font=Arial][size=3][left]How much are these freebies worth? The value of the free tuition for the current year is $26,500.[/left][/size][/font][/color][/quote] The value of the tuition, or the price of the tuition? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basilisa Marie Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 [quote name='USAirwaysIHS' timestamp='1327821343' post='2376889'] The value of the tuition, or the price of the tuition? [/quote] It's probably the price, before the mega-scholarship thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totus Tuus Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 [quote name='arfink' timestamp='1327780777' post='2376622'] Not hatin' just saying that liberal arts degrees don't get you hired out of college. Good thing this one is cheap. [/quote] Oooh this is something I just love talking about. What you said is, in my opinion, simply not true. Please note: [url="http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/story/2012-01-24/liberal-arts-education-graduates/52779652/1"]http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/story/2012-01-24/liberal-arts-education-graduates/52779652/1[/url] [url="http://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/2012/01/27/what-is-liberal-arts-degree-worth-these-days/"]http://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/2012/01/27/what-is-liberal-arts-degree-worth-these-days/[/url] [url="http://www.businesspundit.com/20-lucrative-careers-you-can-get-with-a-liberal-arts-degree/"]http://www.businesspundit.com/20-lucrative-careers-you-can-get-with-a-liberal-arts-degree/[/url] [url="http://www.ajc.com/hotjobs/content/hotjobs/careercenter/articles/2007_0506_degrees.html"]http://www.ajc.com/hotjobs/content/hotjobs/careercenter/articles/2007_0506_degrees.html[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amppax Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 [quote name='Basilisa Marie' timestamp='1327774347' post='2376568'] It's also just opened, and only accepting about 75 students for next year. [/quote] In fairness, the history of the school goes back a long ways. It would be more accurate to say they are reopening it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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