Ericka Seastrand graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2008 with a bachelor's degree in consumer science. She beat the pavement for nine months, and the only job she could get was retail sales associate at a mall.
"The market was really competitive," the 26-year-old from West Milwaukee recalled last week. "My degree was a generic business degree - nothing technical or tangible in the skill set. So I decided to get another degree with a hard skill set."
Seastrand is one of a surprising number of 20-somethings who graduated from college in recent years, couldn't find good-paying jobs with their four-year degrees, and enrolled in a technical college to earn a second degree or diploma geared toward specific job opportunities.
In the last three years, 6.4% of the total number of degrees and diplomas awarded at Waukesha County Technical College went to 20-somethings who self-reported they had at least 16 years of education before enrolling at the technical college, according to data analysis requested by the Journal Sentinel. Twenty-somethings represented 79.5% of all WCTC's grads from 2009 to 2011 who already had bachelor's degrees.
Saturday, June 2, 2012
From BA to AA
The Milwaukee Journal reports that college graduates are increasingly going back to technical school to learn practical skills.
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