A Three Year Degree 3
UNC-Greensboro is offering a three year undergrad program with majors offering actual life skills like accounting, information systems and elementary education. That’s great for those not already in debtor’s prison. High School students are in the unenviable position of having to budget for likely stints of unemployment that will overlap with some level of student loan payment. Could this be the great equalizer?
Before I let everyone else weigh-in I’d like to say I think this is a major step in the right direction. With graduate level degrees and additional certifications as prerequisites for even entry level jobs kids need an opportunity to get out into the world before they are 30. Also consider this – say a student lived at home and worked full time, scraping together enough to pay for two semesters of school. Say he then gets into a three year program. According to my Math he’s just cut his borrowing in half. And that is the name of the game kids.
