How others think of college degrees...

[posabsolute]

I don't know; so many factors at play.

For one, I don't think, as a 19-year-old, you are qualified to make all those decisions, including the amount of debt you can incur for life going to college. If your family is rich, I guess it's easier, but otherwise, you need to think long and far about what you want to do. The worst thing you can do is start university not knowing what you want to do and end up racking debt while not gaining any skills, I blame more the system than the people on that. Then there are other options:

* There are trade schools
* Community College, later up to University
* Do like us, although I don't think it fits most 19 years old.

In Canada, in some provinces, we have "technical degrees" which amount to associate degrees basically, but they are professions you can get a job in, I really like that, worse case you can later them up to university afterward.