Comments on: Why Four Years?

By: Bob Sykes

Bob Sykes — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 12:05:19 +0000

The BA premium exists because employers use it as a proxy for IQ and work ethic.

As to universities being places of learning rather than training, the one area where students are guaranteed neither to learn nor be trained is the BA, especially BAs in the humanities, the great fraud of the modern university.

By: Joseph Moroco

Joseph Moroco — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 19:15:58 +0000

If you are fluent in the language along with that Russian BA, I’d hire you in a second.

Gender or lass studies, you had a four year pity party.

By: Magus Janus

Magus Janus — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 15:25:00 +0000

Bryan Caplan’s signaling model of education talks about this. We are basically at a ridiculously inefficient coordination point, largely due to government subsidies, interventions, and regulations. And now, due to public choice problems, we are stuck here likely for the long haul.

By: Isegoria

Isegoria — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 13:53:37 +0000

University was never meant for most people, either.

By: Yancy

Yancy — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 13:32:19 +0000

University was never meant for job training, but for learning.