college is not a panacea for prosperity or the good life. it is an industry that lies to its clientele to get them to continue enlisting (and paying) with promises of high wages when in fact few professions hire at the promised rates. if you buy into this meme, then you will have a rude awakening when you get your sheepskin and start trying to realize the false promises.
There are some degrees that are actually worthwhile, Science and technology type degrees mostly (engineering, hard sciences, medical etc).
All the rest are pretty much wasted. any thing that has “studies” in the title is useless. What kind of job is a black studies or homosexual studies graduate equipped for anyway?