UK: University ‘not the only option’

by E Wayne Ross on August 16, 2006

BBC: University ‘not the only option’

Would-be accountants could be almost £60,000 better off by not going to university, it is claimed.
The Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) compared those doing a college course after school with those doing a three-year degree.

By working in accountancy as trainees, it said, college students could make almost £45,000 and still get higher qualifications as quickly as graduates.

The undergraduates, however, would run up about £15,000 of debt, it said.