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In my opinion, a communications or a business degree is basicly useless and a huge waste of money. Todays high schoolers are basicly being shamed by their guidance councellors into believing that a degree is a must to survive in todays society, because in reality they dont know anything any better themselves.

I work in public relations and I will say that I use around 95% of what I learned from my communications and journalism classes. You don't need a college degree to do it, but media companies hire those graduates before others because they just spent the past 2-4 years going over AP guidelines, media laws, and have been practicing writing stories, broadcasting, and producing enough times to jump right in and start working. Many of these companies don't want to waste money and a lot of time teaching and giving small jobs to a new employee without all that practice. That goes the same for a lot of jobs.

With that being said, college isn't for everybody. A degree can help you get a job, but it doesn't give you job security. Also, it doesn't matter what school you attend, an education is the same everywhere. Heck, I beat out a Columbia and Cornell grad for my job because I knew this area better than they did. According to statistics, I went to one of the worst schools in Kentucky.

Like my boss said, "don't tell and show me how hard you worked, just get the job done on time."