Introduction

Trade schools and technical colleges are exploding everywhere. America’s metropolitan cities are overcrowded. Finding one’s way in the job market is like navigating the jungle without a map. To send a student to a traditional university for four years of undergraduate studies can cost close to one million dollars depending on what institution. Armed with this one million dollar degree one must now join the job market with many other people with less expensive degrees and the same qualifications. Is this fair? What about the economy if any, contributed to the explosion of people attending trade and technical colleges? Parents are faced with tough decisions, many which include does it pay to send my child away for education.