Just 6 in 10 Americans Say College is Worth It (and only about 20% of Gen Z)

Shocking factors that increase a school's US News and World Report college rank by 6.58 positions 

Rankings are long reports of all the best liberal arts colleges in the country. As a result, there is constant competition among parents and kids to get into these top schools. However, there are shocking issues around the calculations of the rankings that add to the common ideology of 63% of GenZ. 

So, I am exploring a new realm of Gen Z's infatuation with dissing institutions. And this is because I fall into the around 63% of Gen Z, who say, we are not so sure that college is a good thing or that the government bodies are working the way they should. In this episode, we shall explore begging questions that need to be answered on college rankings, and it's a shocking factor. 

What factors go into producing a study? 

Have you ever encountered a study and wondered how it came about? This is my natural reaction as a GenZ, but I hadn't questioned college rankings until I came across a shocking report. It reads, "Reed College, US News ranking dropped 54 places after they stopped sending their data to the US News World Report for best colleges in America."  

Now, what are the factors that go into producing the rankings or study? How is Reed College's report genuine to GenZ's College diss of a flawed ranking. 

Flawed Ranking; The US News World Rankings 

Every year, US News World Rankings sends out three surveys to three people at each school in a category. These three people are typically the president, the provost, and the head of admissions. They are to rank the schools, but it can play out in another horrific way, and the Media has a hand in it. However, our Generation can smell something fishy, Can't we? 

Is there Hope for this Generation? 

Students groups like the one at Reed will explore and ask questions. The complete idiocy of rankings based on numbers, wholly meaningless and biased, is being questioned. We're in the middle of a fundamental shift in our education, and we're only just at the beginning, and there's so much we can do to shift it. So stay tuned for that.  

Kindly ensure to follow us on TikTok and Instagram. We are going out on the street to find answers to germane questions if people use the skills they have? Are they getting the skills from other places? Or are they truly getting what they know and learn in their job from their degrees? Because the college institution is collapsing. 

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