Is college a waste of time?

With the price of college rising, financial aid struggling to keep up and students piling on more loan debt, why don’t we all just throw in the towel and do away with college degrees?

That’s what Charles Murray, a W.H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, advocated in a column today’s Wall Street Journal.

Well, he didn’t exactly say do away college altogether, but do away with the bachelor’s degree as the gold standard for job qualification, replacing it with certification tests for each field like the exam for certified public accountants.

Murray wrote:



Under Murray’s model, you can skip four years of college, study in the library for a year, take a test and get a job.

Or you can pay for a liberal arts education, but you would still have to take some sort of test to prove that you learned something in your field of study.

What do you think? Would employers go for it?

&#151Melissa Ludwig

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2 Responses

  1. I can think of one local employer who is in the processing of finding out that a dypsraxic with pilots license and a college degree can be one very persistant,principaled, and uncomprimising individual. The degree and the PP-ASEL should have given them hints they are finding out sadly

  2. Yvette says:

    Going to college you can experience different fields of studies, you can learn to expand your ability to reason and think logically…….a waste of time?