[alistairSH]

In general, the lifetime earnings for a college graduate exceed those of a non-graduate by in excess of $1,000,000. There is nothing "ignorant" about choosing college.

The debt situation isn't sustainable. But "go to college to earn more money" continues to be largely true.

edit - fixed a typo

[Traubenfuchs]

Once again: Counting MDs, computer scientists and religious science graduates as a combined group opposed to a "no college" group that consists of electricians and McDonalds toilet cleaners is extremely misleading, makes absolutely no sense and quite frankly, dumb.

One needs to discern between mostly useless degrees and degrees that almost guarantee a life in the upper class.

[alistairSH]

My response was to the comment that going to college as a young adult is "rather ignorant".

Slicing and dicing the data and making informed policies choices needs to be done, but a blanket statement that college is dumb is, well, dumb.

[rufus_foreman]

>> the lifetime earnings for a college graduate exceed those of a non-graduate by in excess of $1,000,000

Is correlation causation?

[alistairSH]

There's certainly selection bias at play.

If you look at 2-year degrees vs no degree, the lifetime payoff is still hundreds of thousands.