Seems like the majority of US population has now become poor enough that taking getting a humanities degree is risky.
Just "not willing to be in debt for the rest of their lives".
says $160K including residential living expenses (which you'd pay even if you weren't at scool.). $80K for the education part.
And you know, $160k debt in a profession that has $35k salaries... paying that off will easily take 20-30 years. How's that not indentured servitude?
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/international-studen...
There's a spike from 3% to 5% of the total college population, so that doesn't account for the whole story. But the makeup of their elite school demographics might also differ from average.
USNews has done grievous injury to tertiary education in USA.
I thought India was pretty unique for its culture that values so highly engineering and as a result has the highest rates of engineering graduates. When you say other countries like India, which countries are you thinking of and what about them brings them to mind?
Where did you see this? Weirdly enough it doesn't even seem to make the top 10 in the stats I can find, though they say "engineering/manufacturing/construction", and I'm not really sure we should be separating them for the purposes of the current discussion. (Though this is a bit weird considering how big India and China are? Not sure what's going on.)
[Edit: Seems they're not part of the World Economic Forum, and hence they lack data on India and China.]
But to address the question of what other such countries might be: the top 3 seem to be Russia, USA, Iran: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-with-the-most-...