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Law school applications are down as well as law jobs and starting salaries. To attend law school and need to borrow $100K in student loans in this jobs environment is crazy! Without the loans it is worth the effort.
Harry Reid’s reply to a reporter about children with cancer will come back to haunt him and the Dems. The arrogant “it is not my problem” answer to why the Senate would not agree with the House to open the NIH Clinical Center hospital is beyond comprehension. He needs to go!
btl = Bachelor of Talmudic Law. It is the standard yeshiva degree short of Smecha or Rabbinic Ordination. It has limited value unless one can gain admission to a real graduate program from a real college.
Why not look into a yeshivas that allows part time college while still staying in the Beis Medsrah as well?
Stop the short cut nonsense! They are roads to nowhere. There is no substitute for real credentials from real colleges. Look into college majors that have a marketable future that include STEM, financial areas, information technology (IT) cyber security, IT data management, actuarial science, economics. The competition for jobs is very keen and the short cut holders are squeezed out of the mix.
To jwashing: I have degrees from Hopkins (BA and Masters) in psychology and my son has a degree in Information Technology from UMBC. College tuition is in addition to NIRC tuition. Many NIRC grads enter Federal Service at SSA or other local or DC Agencies. Some attend law school at UMd or UB, pass the Md Bar and enter the legal world. Others are in the Accounting, Information Technology, or math-actuarial science areas. There are as many options as there are majors at the schools. While NIRC monitors the number of evening a week the boys can attend they do not monitor what you are majoring in. Just don’t expect much help from NIRC, it is all from the boys themselves and the college career advisers. There is no formal partnership with any colleges so calling them is useless. It is a transfer and acceptance of certain credits from NIRC. Israeli yeshiva credits are more suspect and most will not be accepted. All in all if you are thinking about an out of NY area yeshiva where serious Torah learning can co-exist with college then NIRC is the place. Check it out.
The person who administers the Ner Yisroel college program is sitting shiva this week. In short, they monitor the number of evenings per week (usually two) one can register for classes. Boys attend a number of local colleges such as Johns Hopkins, Univ Md Baltimore County,local community colleges, Towson, Univ Baltimore, and Loyola University. It does require attending summer sessions and most boys finish within 5 years with yeshiva credits counted towards the college degrees. Yes, college is secondary to Torah, but Ner Israel has since its early years been an advocate of merging serious Torah learning with the ability to obtain credentials to seek a parnasah too.