i was listening to the "freakonomics" podcast recently. they said that one overwhelming truth about the world is unassailablly correct. investment in education pays off HUGE.
I had no idea tuition had gotten so high. What about like LSU-A, LSU-E, etc. Those used to be a lot cheaper, relatively speaking. Anyone know how high they are now?
Leave your credit card home when you hit the titty bars. Not particularly aimed at you but how is that not like driving a Tahoe and complaining about fuel prices/note instead of getting a used Civic? Seems like people would attend colleges close to home that are more affordable. Be dam if I'd put myself in a ton of debt just to attend a particular college. Degrees are degrees for the most part. I know people will chime in disagreeing but they're wrong- again, for the most part.
You know this to be untrue. If you want to be a teacher or a bureaucrat, then a BA from East Southeast State College at Hoople is your ticket. But if you want to succeed in a competitive professional field or academic discipline, the university and more importantly, the department where you got your degree is crucial. Degrees from diploma factories like Southern, will not get you as far as a degree from a major state university like LSU, which will not get you as far as a degree from Stanford, which will not get you as far as a degree from MIT or Harvard. Especially when considering graduate schools.
For a lot of programs LSU is a diploma factory. I know a lot of LSU MBAs, and I know few who think the degree had any impact on their earning potential.
An MBA is almost like an education or general studies degree. Like teachers and bureaucrats, mid-level manager jobs are ubiquitous, there are lots of them and academic pedigrees are not that big of a deal to get your foot in the door. LSU is far from a diploma factory, but there are definitely distinguished departments, average departments, and rather undistinguished ones in any university this size. It's why I said that departmental reputations are more important than university reputations when your degree is being assessed in narrow professional fields and disciplines.
I know in Law, LSU pulls more weight in Baton Rouge and surrounding areas than others and in New Orleans and surrounding areas you need a Tulane degree. Southern Grads (like me) and Loyola Grads are treated like the short bus kids when it comes to large firms. However, for someone like me that had a job lined up before entering law school and has no interest in practicing "big law", the Southern degree was a value that I just could not pass up. By the way…all the people that were in my circle of friends at Southern all got jobs right after passing the bar can't say as much for some LSU grads I know.
I disagree and do not know that to be untrue. If you hear a doctor is good to you question where he got his degree from? I can't tell you where any of my doctors ever graduated from. I could give many examples.
