In the US, we can&#x27;t go to university for $500 a year, like in some European countries.  Or like our parents did a generation ago.<p>You&#x27;ve got to come up with the scratch somehow to pay for the education, and that comes in, on average, somewhere north of $20k per year.  Most people take out student loans, and graduate with the equivalent of a medium mortgage-worth of debt out of the gate.  If you get a degree in some squishy field, you&#x27;re taking the risk that you&#x27;re going to sentence yourself to a decade or more of near-poverty because of the combination of loan debt and low salary&#x2F;lack of occupation in that field, or you have to double-down and go to grad school, racking up more years of debt.  Then you might find that you haven&#x27;t bought yourself much advantage with the two or three years and $75k you spent.<p>It&#x27;s always your decision what to do.  Fiscal prudence shouldn&#x27;t be a target of derision either.  You can always go pursue your passions on your own time after you put food on the table.