In the short term career with an option to acquire a degree by the solution to increase graduation rates and college debt in the U.S.

If you are the wave of recent articles on the bubble of college debt, and if the book “Higher education: How to waste universities our money and failing our children – - and this can be done” by Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus will know you, there is something seriously wrong with our current model of higher education.

While most students begin college with the intention of completion in four years, statistics show that less than 50% actually do. Four-year graduation rates in New Jersey ranged from 90% as low as 6% [2008 data]. (Heybour, Kelly, The Star Ledger, January 30, 2011: “.. In NJ universities, students have less than 50 percent chance of completion in four years,” This situation is no different than in other states consider these facts for the United States: . four-year graduates are 54% higher (about a million more in professional life), on average, than those who have graduated yet or only a high school, but only a quarter of Americans 25-34 have a bachelor’s degree. Around half of the 3 million people who give the university in America to give up. The graduation rate of 50% is the rate of promotion 6 years, not four years.

People that the university or graduate with degrees that do not require a lot of vacation have a huge problem, and their students to repay loans because of higher learning in higher education has risen much faster than inflation or family income. Tuition fees for most private universities is now a minimum of $ 20k to $ 40k (New Jersey) a year plus room and board. Even a degree that is sufficient as a rule not to start a successful career, costs about $ 40K to $ 45K. Many people are also using $ 80K to 200K of debt university Bachelor graduates who are not very useful for employment and are therefore not complete the repayment of the loan. In addition, 45% of college students make little progress in the first two years after a four-year degree, as the sociologist Richard Arum New York University and Josipa Roks the University of Virginia noted in her new book, “academic drift”.

So while high school or college is 4 years of the keys to success for most people, it has a failure rate of 50%. The students leave the university because of not having a clear direction, class scheduling difficulties, too long to graduate and financial considerations, among others. So, what’s the solution? As an educator for 20 years for training in IT, I can offer no solution for the academic degrees oriented so that the history or political science. But at least for them or other technology related degree, the solution is the wrong model of higher education. What this means is that instead of teaching general education courses during the first two years of school, we do the following:

a) belong only to students who have the ability, in the IT sector to be successful. This may be by means of an aptitude test;

b) teach students skills in relation to the first time in a short time, say within 9-12 months, and help them get the certification by industry organizations to enhance their chances of getting a job with a higher increase in wages;

c) Students should be able to their degrees through transfer credit, and taking online courses while working in the fields or after some experience.

This model is used to improve the graduation rate and reduce the debt burden of the university to give a better start in life. Although this interest is a good solution for the last high school graduates in IT or related courses in technology, it can be the best option (24-35) for adults who want a career change and have all not only six years to a certain to earn degrees while working for their livelihood. It is also good to know that jobs such as computer support and network administration among the fastest-growing jobs in the United States after the Labor Department, are not among those that require a college degree.

According to Forbes.com, is network management (with chefs and fashion designer), a six-figure jobs that do not have a degree (Kneale, Forbes.com, Klaus, 12 January 2009. “Six-figure jobs that do not require a college degree for. “data via the transmission network of the communication / data experience with 8 + is based years”). The reason for this is that in each of these professions, you can, or natural ability, more than anything else. Some training and certification (if required ) you can at a very high level of income and you do not need to take a college degree.

The last thing I want with young adults, which is more and more confused in the current economic realities shares that most people, it is better, with little or no debt with an Ivy college diploma or a brand with a lifetime of debt, such as Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus concluded in her new book.

Zafar Khizir is the founder and president of the Professional Institute PC AGE has offices in Jersey City, Edison and Parsippany. He received a master’s degree in Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology and has several books on computer networks. Colleges and universities, including New York University have used some of his books.

Contact:
Khizir Zafar, PC AGE Career Institute http://www.pcage.edu/

Resources:
Heybour, Kelly. “In NJ universities, students have less than 50 percent chance of completion in four years,” The Star Ledger, 30 January 2011
Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus. “Higher education: How colleges are wasting our money and our children to blame – and what we can do about it”
Richard Arum and Josipa Roks. “Academic Adrift”
Kneale, Klaus. “Six figures jobs you do not need a college degree for” 12th Forbes.com January 2009

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