Is College Worth It?

Is College Worth It?

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Poll

Are you planning to go to a 2 year or 4 year college after high school?

• Yes, 2 year

• Yes, 4 year

• No

Multiple Select

These degrees give you a good chance at increasing your lifetime income by a half million dollars

• Engineering

• Music

• Nursing

• Psychology

Multiple Choice

All degrees are valuable no matter how long it takes to complete them.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

If you drop out of college you're virtually guaranteed to be worse off financially than if you had never gone at all.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Only about _ percent of high school students go on to finish a college degree?

• 26

• 31

• 61

• 18

Multiple Choice

This percentage finish a degree and then end up in a job that actually requires it.

• 26

• 31

• 61

• 18

Multiple Choice

About ____ worth of taxpayer money goes into higher education every year even though it is only really serving about ____ of the population.

• $200 million, 2/5ths

• $200 billion, 1/5th

• $300,000, 1/2th

• $200,000, 1/4th

Multiple Choice

____ percent of students who didn't get a bachelor's degree said they would have rather had a three-year apprenticeship, than a fully-funded college education.

• 50

• 60

• 62

• 30

Multiple Choice

What are three college/career options you have after graduating from high school?

• College/University

• Trade School

• Straight to work

• All of the above

Multiple Choice

The host brings up his own experience (as well as his mother's). In summary, what does he say about it?

• He went to college, and his mother didn't. It seemed to work out well for both of them.

• His mother went to college, but he didn't. His mother really wants him to get a college degree.

• Both he and his mother went to college, but neither of them found success.

Multiple Choice

A high school diploma landed you a good job in the 50's.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

What costs more?

• Public College

• Private College

Multiple Choice

When do you receive the benefits of a bachelor's degree?

• After you graduate high school?

• After two months of being in college?

• Only after you graduate and complete college.

Multiple Choice

To be "underemployed" means....

• you are always looking for a job

• you are working a job that doesn't require a college degree

• you don't get paid enough

• you want to leave your job

Multiple Choice

What's an apprenticeship?

• going to night school

• getting paid while learning a skill

• to start your own business

• to work in the mail room

Multiple Choice

How many jobs went to college grads in 2018?

• 9 out of 10

• 1 out of 10

• 5 out of 10

• 0 out of 10

Multiple Choice

What percentage of jobs were found through networking?

• 10%

• 40%

• 70%

• 90%

Multiple Choice

What is true about bachelor's degrees (4 years of college) vs. trade school (electrician, for example)?

• You might make more money starting out after trade school, but eventually the college graduates will make more in the long run.

• You make more starting out with a bachelor's degree, but trade school graduates will eventually make more in the long run.

• You will never make much money after trade school, but you will with college.

Multiple Choice

True or False: The more education you get the more you will get paid

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

True or False: The more education you get your chance of unemployment goes up

• True

• False

Open Ended

What is something that you learned from either of these two videos that you think will help you in the future?