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Bigger pool of students with guaranteed gov loans.
Make sure a college degree is a requirement for employment.
What could go wrong? Cash cow city.
Kids need to go to the high end schools or go the tradesman route. Best ROI, IMO.
The masses coming out of run of the mill schools with no teeth majors aren't going anywhere, and can easily be replaced off-shore. No leverage. Waste of money.
Trade school or an applied science school with internships in your field of study are the best alternative. Internship internationally, if possible, for the best network exposure.
In the corporate world, there aren't many super important jobs that need to be filled with subject matter experts, and those are recruited from the world's best schools.
The ticket is majors across several disciplines, big names for the colleges attended, and specific names as references on your resume.
AOC is a good example, here. BU isn't a bad school, and if she was a business or economics major and any good, in the Boston area, especially, her name would have been out there when it came to a job after graduation. They're networked up the ass. Profs aren't going to bullshit a reference and risk being dropped from the network for lack of credibility. Easy to write a reference so that the suits doing the hiring can read between the lines.
She got out and ended up as a bar chic. There's nothing there upstairs with these grads, and the people who hire know who not to go to for any specialized help.