humdrumstar: That’s what Newsweek asks.
Well, that depends on whether or not you actually think it’s a guarantee to a slice of the capitalist dream. If you go to college expecting the return on your investment to be a home in the suburbs or a job, well, go to trade school. I never saw college as an investment but as an opportunity to learn. Whatever came after that was what came after that. Retool your expectations for education and maybe you’ll get something out of it. Universities aren’t job factories.
Newsweek: College as a Lousy Investment? 
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    Only one professor in my three years of university has ever told me anything like this. We’ve come to expect university...
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    An ongoing debate that I would say is very much US-centric (or North American), but possibly applies everywhere. I...
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    All of this!!!!!
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    a bachelor’s is the new HS degree, master’s the new bachelor’s. it blows
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    Agreed. What I learned in college transcends what I expected to learn. Now, if only we could work on those outrageous...