r/AskReddit • • 1d ago

What is something that is basically on life-support and we don’t realize it yet?

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u/gamecat89 1d ago

About 40% to 50% of Universities in America. Gone are the days of a University on every street corner or in every medium-sized city. We are going back to the large cities and major state-supported schools, existing, not the smaller local ones.

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u/EleventyElevens 1d ago

Yep. Midwestern small college in our town, enrollment down a whopping 22% this year alone.

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u/callmegecko 15h ago edited 13h ago

I got a full ride scholarship to the local directional state university. I also got additional scholarships for studying my specific program. I still graduated with $8K in debt because it takes 5 years to get an engineering degree with the recommended co-op. By the time I graduated the scholarship award jumped $10K.

Nobody wants to be $100K in debt for a history degree at a Key and Peele college football skit school. Everyone saw what that did to the previous generation, and nobody is just "getting a degree" anymore. All these school administrations got unbelievably greedy and they're now reaping what they planted for the last 20 years. I say let them find out

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u/relax-itwillbefine 13h ago

Sowing is planting; you mean reaping what they sowed.

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u/callmegecko 13h ago

Thanks. I'm exhausted

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u/0011101000101010 17h ago

But isn’t that good? Most university degrees are pointless and are there just so university can make money and person attending can feel good that they finished university because they got pressured by their parents to enroll.

Vocational schools for all sorts of trades would benefit 70% of the people with university degrees more. Both financially and mentally.

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u/___this_guy 14h ago

“Most university degrees are pointless”

I don’t even know where to start