biggest-crisis-higher-ed-isnt-student-debt-its-students-michael-crow

That is an interesting quote.. and not exactly accurate. On average they make 10-20% more is the numbers I've seen, but I cant put a definitive source on that. I think the overwhelming costs of college, at least for a Bachelors degree, is daunting. My wife spent 60k on hers.. One of my professors spent 100k (her debt, not what she actually spent) to get her PHD. The problem with her, the PHD, is she's in a job that doesn't pay exactly well, in her own field. I think its one of the worst decisions she could have made. She took a mortgage on what is basically a small, cheap house without any job to back it up on the promise that she should, on average, make more... That's a lot of faith in a piece of paper. As to the problem solving and critical thinking skills.. I think there are more places than academia to learn that. I think my BET course in AIT was actually quite good at teaching critical thinking with a focus on troubleshooting.