Do You Think More Highly Of A Person With A College Degree?

[Red Door]

Inspired by this thread...

You can make this a simple black or white question, or not, it's your choice.

1. In general, do you think more highly of people with a college degree versus people who don't?
1A. Are these people (the one's with degrees) more intelligent than those who don't have college degrees?
1B. Are they (the one's with degrees) more likely to succeed in life?

2. Assume the following scenario. You are an employer for a $100,000 per month job. You get two applicants, they're both just as qualified, except one has a college degree, and the other doesn't. Which one do you hire? Why?

Discuss.

Also, please add this to the discussion. Thanks to nivi for posting it.

3. Assume the following scenario. You are gettin married. You have 2 best freinds, they're both just as qualified, except one has a college degree, and the other doesn't. Which one do you make the best man? Why?

 

[nivi]

How about a little diffrent scernario:

2. Assume the following scenario. You are gettin married. You have 2 best freinds, they're both just as qualified, except one has a college degree, and the other doesn't. Which one do you make the best man? Why?


As I said in the thread, respect for college education starts and ends at the job interview (it doesn't even carry to the job itself).

 

[frob2900]

Answer: No.

And as for 2. what has the person without a college degree done during the 5 years where the college degree person has been in college?

 

[QuoVadisNation]

In New Jersey, it's not that people look upon people with college degrees highly. but that New Jersians generally look upon people without college degrees poorly. But no, a college degree doesn't make me think* anything more of a person; unless they go to graduate school or something.

 

[Kraznaya]

1. Yes
2. Usually
3. Usually
4. College degree is a qualification to me.

2. I don't think I place people on exactly equal footing.

 

[Red Door]

How about a little diffrent scernario:

2. Assume the following scenario. You are gettin married. You have 2 best freinds, they're both just as qualified, except one has a college degree, and the other doesn't. Which one do you make the best man? Why?

Ooo, I like that one, I'll put it in the OP if you don't mind, but it can't be on the poll, sorry.

Answer: No.

And as for 2. what has the person without a college degree done during the 5 years where the college degree person has been in college?

I don't know, I didn't about that, but you do know that they're equally qualified, that's all you need to know.

 

[North King]

1. In general, do you think more highly of people with a college degree versus people who don't?

Yes. They had the maturity and patience to round out their education.

1A. Are these people (the one's with degrees) more intelligent than those who don't have college degrees?

Yes, but the person is not more intelligent because they earned a degree; the more intelligent a person is, the more likely they will want to complete their education.

1B. Are they (the one's with degrees) more likely to succeed in life?

Yes. Statistics bear it out.

2. Assume the following scenario. You are an employer for a $100,000 per month job. You get two applicants, they're both just as qualified, except one has a college degree, and the other doesn't. Which one do you hire? Why?

The one with a degree is more qualified. Not only because he's displayed persistence and patience in his life already, but because he probably has a decent base of knowledge. So I hire him, naturally.

2. Assume the following scenario. You are gettin married. You have 2 best freinds, they're both just as qualified, except one has a college degree, and the other doesn't. Which one do you make the best man? Why?

Whoever I like more. Best man is not a particularly intellectually strenuous job.

 

[frob2900]

I don't know, I didn't about that, but you do know that they're equally qualified, that's all you need to know.

But 5 years is a long, long time. You can get a whole lot of good stuff on your CV in the real world in 5 years, or you can get a Masters degree.

 

[amadeus]

Which degrees?

 

[skadistic]

Where is the " who's gives a rats rear" option?

 

[frob2900]

Which degrees?

Good point

 

[Red Door]

Which degrees?

Any college degree, even if it's an Associate's, Bachelor's, or whatever the one is that said you graduated, but not much else.

Where is the " who's gives a rats rear" option?

"View Poll Results"

 

[frob2900]

Any college degree, even if it's an Associate's, Bachelor's, or whatever the one is that said you graduated, but not much else.

There's a slight difference between e.g. a PhD in Theoretical Physics and a Bachelor's in "Media Studies".

 

[Red Door]

There's a slight difference between e.g. a PhD in Theoretical Physics and a Bachelor's in "Media Studies".

Would you just answer the questions instead of bring a bunch of other scenarios in? One person has a degree in something, the other doesn't. How do you feel about each of them?

 

[Irish Caesar]

Of course I don't think more highly of someone with a college degree. In fact, many people with college degrees are the ones I look down on the most. They have no bearing on intelligence, although a person with a college degree likely has more knowledge than one without.

Success is whatever a person chooses to make of it; a degree is no indication of success or failure. If I don't get a degree, I'll have failed because it is something I have set out to do. A good friend of mine decided to drop out of college after a term to work as an electrician's apprentice; I'd say if he becomes an electrician, he's pretty gosh-darn successful, no?

If I'm an employer, though, I'm going to hire the person with the college degree. If they have the same work experience, I'd rather have someone who has more invested in the job already, and it does reflect well on me as a boss to hire people with good degrees.

As for best man, I really can't imagine two friends being perfectly equal except for college degrees; that's a rather big thing that people about my age have in common!

 

[mangxema]

1. In general, do you think more highly of people with a college degree versus people who don't?

Yes.

1A. Are these people (the one's with degrees) more intelligent than those who don't have college degrees?

Probably, if for no other reason for recognizing that education is important.

1B. Are they (the one's with degrees) more likely to succeed in life?

Probably, though less so. It also depends on what 'success' means to you. If it's just keeping an honest job and raising a family, it will be a lot harder, but you could still do it with some hard work.

2. Assume the following scenario. You are an employer for a $100,000 per month job. You get two applicants, they're both just as qualified, except one has a college degree, and the other doesn't. Which one do you hire? Why?

Degree. If you're paying 100 grand, the job must be important. If it's that important, you should have a degree. At least.

3. Assume the following scenario. You are gettin married. You have 2 best freinds, they're both just as qualified, except one has a college degree, and the other doesn't. Which one do you make the best man? Why?

Just as qualified to be your friend? This is highly superficial and irrelevant, really. The question boils down to which of your two best friends do you choose?

 

[frob2900]

Would you just answer the questions instead of bring a bunch of other scenarios in? One person has a degree in something, the other doesn't. How do you feel about each of them?

The reason "I'm bringing in scenarios" is that "a college degree" and "not a college degree" says nothing at all. One of them could be someone who drank their way to a "Bachelors in Web Media", the other could be a highly skilled self-trained computer programmer. There I answered it

 

[cegman]

I can't say I think more highly of a person with a degree just because of it. The person with a degree usually has certain characteristics that make me think more highly of them but I haven't got a clue if a lot of people I think very highly ever set foot in a university.

 

[Whomp]

I don't judge people that way. I judge them on the stupid crap they spew.

 

[frob2900]

I don't judge people that way. I judge them on the stupid crap they spew.

You have to take into account the good/interesting crap to stupid crap ratio. If it's way above 1 then you think highly of them