More profitable than Exxon?

[FederalRepublic]

Community college can also be an inexpensive stepping stone or bridge to a four year university. Let's face it, English 101 and "Sociology 101" are pretty much the same at community college as they are at Harvard. Community colleges can also be a great opportunity for university students to either get caught up or ahead by attending summer school.

When my kid to Psyc 101 at his major university, it was taught by a world famous researcher with a PhD in abnormal psycology, and he had 250 students in his class. When he took Sociology 101, he did it at community college, it was taught by a non-famous PhD in the Sociology, but with only 15 students in the class. Guess which class he learned more in?

Many 4 year colleges are hooked up with tech schools or community colleges with a bridge program. these community colleges have programs that are taylor designed to lead directly to a specific university curriculum, with no loss of credit hours (except for possibly some remedial classes). Sometimes the community college student can even participate in university extra-curriculars.

That's the route I took. Jr college classes are considerably cheaper and if you do a little research beforehand, the credits transfer directly. There's no point in paying a premium for any 100-level course. Most 200-level courses as well.

 

[laska]

Education and job training should be much higher quality and super cheap. That there are 40 yr olds still paying off student loans is silly. The following links is the future of education. Think of this on steroids, where people download courses much higher quality than what the Khan Academy produces, where the budgets and talent are like high budget video games.

https://www.khanacademy.org/

khanacademy - YouTube