<p>OMG, if I read one more story about how not going to college is better for you financially, I’ll vomit. This is the new “trendy” topic for financial writers to go on and on about. Yes, if people had all $200,000 all at once, they might be better off starting a business or investing or doing something else with that. But most people don’t just get the whole $200,000 nest egg right away. THey have some saved, some comes from loans, some comes from parent’s income throughout the course of the year, some from scholarships. So most people don’t have that money when they start college, thus they couldn’t do something else with it. </p>
<p>Also, I reject the idea that there are “low-paying” majors. Just because you major in anthropology or English doesn’t mean that you become an English teacher or an anthropologist. Someone who studies anthropology and then gets a job in say, Corporate giving heading up a project of giving to 3rd world countries, could do pretty well.</p>