COLLEGE MAY NO LONGER BE WORTH IT
Depending who you are and what you want to do, for the first time in at least three generations, it might make sense to skip going to college.
Universities are more expensive than ever before. They arguably offer a worse education than ever before. And they are less necessary for good careers than ever before.12
That’s not to say that college sucks. Far from it. For many people, going into many professions, college still makes sense. Also, if you’re from a less developed country or live in a country where college is largely paid for by the government, then if you get in, it almost certainly makes sense.
But if you live in the US or a number of other developed nations where the cost of university is now exorbitant and the schools have invested most of their resources into wave pools and glowing ping pong tables rather than sane teachers or up-to-date curriculums, you might want to take a stab at making things work on your own. Just a thought.
Worth it