Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg says colleges aren’t ‘adequately preparing’ students for jobs: ‘There's going to…’

Facebook-parent Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently appeared in an episode of the This Past Weekend podcast with Theo Von. During the episode, Zuckerberg voiced his concerns about the current education system being costly and that colleges aren’t adequately preparing students for today’s job market. The Meta CEO said: “I'm not sure that college is preparing people for the jobs that they need to have today. I think that there's a big issue on that, and all the student debt issues are…really big.” He further added “The fact that college is just so expensive for so many people and then you graduate and you're in debt.”

Zuckerberg recently funded two tuition-free schools for low-income families. In the podcast, he pointed out that college students aren't guaranteed any rate of employment after graduating.
Zuckerberg said “It would be one thing if [college] was just kind of like a social experience, but you started off neutral. The fact that it's not preparing you for the jobs that you need and you're kind of starting off in this big [financial] hole then I think that's not good”.
“There's going to have to be a reckoning…and people are going to have to figure out whether that makes sense. It's sort of been this taboo thing to say, 'Maybe not everyone needs to go to college,' and because there's a lot of jobs that don't require that…people are probably coming around to that opinion a little more now than maybe like 10 years ago,” he added.

Zuckerberg, who himself is a Harvard dropout, launched Facebook from his dorm room. Now a billionaire, he has been given an honorary degree from Harvard, said that college can be invaluable for building human relationships.
"There's a question of how much [college] is about learning and how much of it is about…learning how to be a grownup before you go out into the world," the Facebook founder said. "I mean for me the classes were fine, that was a fun sort of entertaining part of college. But I met a lot of people who were really important in my life.”
"I mean Priscilla, my cofounders at my company, a bunch of people who are still close friends to this day. So I think that's almost more of it than like whatever class you took," he added.