I feel like colleges should be responsible for getting you a job for the thing that you majored in

People waste so much time and money on college, student loan debt is insane. They can't even provide you with the books and pre-reqs are mandatory. And then after 3, 4, 5+ years of the bs people still can't get a job.

Ok, so either get them a job or give them their money back.

Imagine if this was done with anything else. You buy a car and it might work, it might not work. That'd be crazy.

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CrazyMusicLover · 31-35

There are colleges like that. Some are directly teamed up with companies and provide new workers for them.
Then there are those that expect you be more than just a regular worker, they kind of want you to be self-employed and create working positions for other people if you are able to go that big.
If I got it right, if you want to be trained for some specific position in a company, you go to a specialized high school, dual education or individual advanced courses. If you go to a university, you either train to become a part of the university as a researcher/teacher or you aim for some individual path as an entrepreneur. A part is expected to go to some higher positions but realistically, there are far less positions than the number of graduates colleges produce every year.
This is Europe though.

Rolexeo · 26-30, M

@CrazyMusicLover That's definitely a step in the right direction, ik trade schools more or less set you up with a job, it should be the norm for colleges in America to do the same. Surprised it isn't really being pushed for in America

CrazyMusicLover · 31-35

@Rolexeo Yes but the problem here is that we have high schools with "general education" that are supposed to prepare students for college. However, kids (or their parents) decide for them when they are 10 or 15, depending if they go to 8 year or 4 year program. So if they graduate from these and don't want to go to college anymore, they have no trade/craft/practical skills in hands and have hard time to get employed. If everything worked as it should, trade/professionally specialized high schools would produce able workers filling positions where the higher education isn't needed. The problem is that these schools have always been seen as something less than prestigious "prep" schools for colleges and unfortunately, many truly didn't provide sufficient education and practical training in past (I don't know how it is now). Since there was a high demand for "prep" schools, now there are far more of them than needed and far more high school graduates that have no where else to go than to a college or take a job that requires no education whatsoever. So as a response, colleges lowered their demands too and there are far more college students than needed, even some that would have probably fared much better if they had finished a trade high school and started working.
It feels like some of the study programs were created solely for some teachers to have something to teach and be able to stay at academical ground, regardless of how useless it is to new students...but generally, it's considered their problem if they choose this program over something that might give them a higher chance to get employed after they'll have graduated.