There are many places in the world where a college degree is mandatory to even get an entry level job. The US does not hold the "make everyone go to college" card.
What is more important than what education you are getting is going to be what is the pay out after college.
Median Earnings by Major and Subject Area - Home - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Currently I'm working with lawyers and seeing graduating law students compete for jobs with Indian graduates who are willing to do the simple e-discovery work for $10/hour. There are going to be law students who will not be able to pay off their $100k student loans with the competition of global lawyers available to do grunt work common law tasks.
Personally, I didn't graduate from college. I did go to different schools for about 5 years trying to pay the least amount as possible and worked as close to full time except for the first year. Years 2-5 it was like "do I go to work or do I go to class?" I was fortunate enough to have a skill that people were willing to pay me gobs of money. I had no college debt. Skogafoss had student loans, used none of the major degree she got for any job she's held.
I did take off a year from freshman to sophomore to live in Singapore and travel South East Asia. It was the best thing I ever did. I'd do it again if I could, even now.
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