As wikipedia says "A skill is the learned capacity to carry out pre-determined results often with the minimum outlay of time, energy, or both". People pay for skills, not degrees. Degrees are pretty much lazy filters for people who are hiring or buy services. If you can show have the skills and have them good (by a portfolio, testimonials, whatever) you'll be over %90 of the people by actually giving enough of a shit to develop a skill really really well. A skill that is in demand and has low supply will give you lots of cash. Learn a practical skill, be it programming (especially in areas that are in higher demand, like mobile development, or security) , medicine (like anesthesiology), engineering, sales (getting people to pay you money) or go directly to the market and fulfill a need that people are willing to pay for (like roosh for example), be it a product or service and be fucking good at it that not many can compete.
In college educations, there are a few top brand names(Stanford,Berkley,Harvard), a few notorious shit holes (DeVry,Phoenix) and the %99.99 vast middle gulf of unknowns. The value of the top brand names are dubious at most and are fairly expensive (although if you can get it for cheap, go for it!). As a recent grad, the best way to get a degree is to get your first 2-3 years at the most reasonable community college you can get and then transfer to a decent university to finish it off for a minimum of cash and time. If school is so expensive that getting it somewhere in europe would be cheaper (do your research) then do it! If your school has an internship/co-op program, fucking take of advantage of it. Don't waste your time on a degree that doesn't translate to a skill which people will pay for. If a skill market is cyclical and your in a downturn right now for it, starting your degree in it now could be a good thing, since by the time you finish the degree it could be on it's upswing again and there aren't many grads available since they were all shooed away from the previous downturn.
In college educations, there are a few top brand names(Stanford,Berkley,Harvard), a few notorious shit holes (DeVry,Phoenix) and the %99.99 vast middle gulf of unknowns. The value of the top brand names are dubious at most and are fairly expensive (although if you can get it for cheap, go for it!). As a recent grad, the best way to get a degree is to get your first 2-3 years at the most reasonable community college you can get and then transfer to a decent university to finish it off for a minimum of cash and time. If school is so expensive that getting it somewhere in europe would be cheaper (do your research) then do it! If your school has an internship/co-op program, fucking take of advantage of it. Don't waste your time on a degree that doesn't translate to a skill which people will pay for. If a skill market is cyclical and your in a downturn right now for it, starting your degree in it now could be a good thing, since by the time you finish the degree it could be on it's upswing again and there aren't many grads available since they were all shooed away from the previous downturn.