If You Do Get a Degree, Double-Major in Something Useful

Well, the value of graduate school really depends on what you are studying and what you expect to get out of graduate school. I encourage young people to engage in the act of dynamic thinking. That means don't just apply the rules that worked in your field 20 years ago. Journalism is a great example. The media has changed dramatically. I run a media company. I'm in media all the time, and the biggest mistake a journalism major can make is to allow 1985 thinking to dictate how they pursue their career.

In a field like journalism, for example you want to learn your field, figure out what it takes to be successful. It might - for example, I recommend double majoring in business so you can understand how corporate America actually drives the media so that you can actually control your own destiny, because the truth of the matter is that in some fields graduate schools makes sense. You know, in business, for example, you should get an MBA, but in journalism, if you're taking out $50,000 worth of debt like Hunter's doing and you're going into a field where the jobs are disappearing by the day, then you might end up in an even worse situation than the one you were in before.

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Is A College Education Worth The Debt?

Audiovisual Media>Audio Recording: Coleman, Vedder, Watkins (09/01/2009), Is A College Education Worth The Debt?, Retrieved on 2015-03-08

Source Material [www.npr.org]

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08 MAR 2015

Is College Worth It?

Are PhDs a pyramid scheme? Are college returns worth the risk of failure and massive debt?

Folksonomies: economics academia debt student loans