Unemployed student sues
college

(MYFOX NATIONAL) - The job market is tough out there. But at least one New York City woman who's been unable to find a position since graduating from college knows who's to blame.

It's not the president. It's not Wall Street or the economy. It's her college, Monroe College to be exact.

According to the New York Post , Trina Thompson has filed a lawsuit that seeks to recover the $70,000 she spent on tuition. The 27-year-old asserts that the school did not provide her job leads and career advice she was promised as part of her education.

"They have not tried hard enough to help me," Thompson wrote in her lawsuit, according to the Post . Her mother Carol said, "She's finally finished [with school], and I'm so proud of her. She just wants a job."

For those who may scoff at the lawsuit as frivolous, consider that a group of students from Rycotewood College in Oxforshire, England, were awarded 14,000 pounds each after they claimed that their degree in historic vehicle restoration did not provide them with adequate skills to equip them for professional careers, even though some of the group successfully completed the course, reported Times Higher Education .

The students, led by Lee Buckingham, who gained his Higher National Diploma, and Jason England, who withdrew from the course, said that the college broke promises made in its prospectus, had failed to deliver work experience, and could not even provide basic tools for the practical work.