The more expensive something is, the less of it can be bought; the cheaper something is, the more of it can be bought. This is an economic law.

The cost of college is rising faster than wages, for some it is already an investment that will never return the cost of purchase. As time goes on this will become true for more consumers. About 90% of people who attend college had no business being there, and most -- not all -- but most jobs that require a degree could be worked by someone who did not go to college. I replaced a person who had a Master's degree and I dropped out of highschool when I was 15. The people who developed airplanes and the locomotive in previous generations did not have a college diploma, they were hobbyists.

What you do (portfolio and experience) matters more than what a paper says you may be able to do. For many, college is nothing more than a status symbol that society (the dept of education, who profits from people going to college) says they need to be successful.

The only reason that more attend college despite a rising price is guaranteed predatory loans and the myth that if you don't go to college you will be a loser who works at a fastfood or some low ranking job: but in a society there will always be ranks because not everyone is created equal... we are all different. I wonder where that myth that one must attend college in order to be successful originated from -- I have yet to track down the source of its origination.