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My concern with college education is that a bachelor's degree is already worth roughly what a high school degree was worth fifty years ago. If things continue on in this fashion, a bachelor's degree is going to be worth its weight in toilet paper--and I'm not even talking about nice toilet paper, I'm talking about the sandpaper they give you in Motel 6. Instead of trying to funnel every American kid through a four-year school that may or may not result in them being a $120k tax sink that waits tables for a living, encourage more kids to go to trade schools and two-year programs that might not qualify them to run a company, but it will qualify them to make a very good living over the long term in a blue-collar field that's got all of its baby boomers retiring, and very few Gen-X'ers or millennials interested in replacing them.

 

 

Your point is agreeable and disagreeable at the same time. It depends what your major is. I majored in Computer Science and make a good living. Someone who majors in an "athlete" major will certainly have trouble finding a great job.

 

Plus, to become a doctor/lawyer/nurse, etc you need a 4 year degree anyway.

 

Having said that, you are correct in your trade school comment. If you know from the beginning that school just isn't for you, then I totally agree in a trade school.

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