Americans see the value in getting a college degree, but they’re not particularly happy with our nation’s higher education system.
Those are among the results from a new survey conducted by New America, a think tank based in Washington. The report, which New America plans to update annually, is based on a survey of 1,600 American adults. The group probed people’s perceptions of higher education and economic mobility, with the results broken out by age, gender, region and socioeconomic status.
Fully three-quarters of respondents said it’s easier to be successful with a degree than without one, in a finding that generally transcended the race of respondents. Yet 51 percent believe that plenty of well-paying jobs do not require going to college, despite solid evidence to the contrary.
Read more at Inside Higher Ed: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/05/11/americans-see-value-higher-education-survey-finds-are-unhappy-current-system
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