Getting technical: an alternative to traditional college
In 2000, I graduated from my first round of post-secondary education and landed a job. My first annual salary was about 13 times more than my entire education had cost me. It wasn’t that my job paid so well, but that my education had been so inexpensive.
Now that my husband and I are parents, we have some decisions to make regarding our children’s education. We, of course, want to find the best value possibleâ¦you know, an inexpensive but good education. With the average student holding over $26,000 in student loans, though, do “inexpensive” and “education” even belong in the same sentence?
I keep hearing that it’s a different environment now than it was when I got my first job (and it is). But is it so different that an expensive education at a four-year institution is the only option?</