What's the value of a college degree?

[bhikkhu]

4. Developing your mind is one way of contributing to society through your self

as well as socking away a form of wealth that can't easily be taken from you.

Whether you get a valuable degree or not, the basic college path has always been laid out first to develop the person as a person, and second to develop specific job skills. Plenty of people go into college without a solid idea of what they want, and at some point along they way they "find their feet", and their path through life.

Reducing it all to a sum of money misses the point and misdirects many people, though I know there is a point where money figures in pretty heavily. I'm paying on student loans myself, for a degree which leads to nothing currently. I don't mind. I expect my kids to go to college as well, and if the cost vs benefit thing doesn't on the surface seem to work out, I don't mind that either. Its still small potatoes against what you might call "a life well lived", or the alternative.