Here is the ONE thing a college degree gets you: get your resume looked at.  Due to the oversupply of college graduates, jobs add a college degree to the list of requirements so they don't need to look at as many resumes, even if the job doesn't need it.

One needs to add experience and certifications, and other things to better your chance at work.  People need to weight the debt load vs potential payout when deciding whether to do college.

so females and homosexuals won't get as good of jobs?

OT: Kinda agree. Keep a set goal in mind when going to college if you want it useful, but college = bad is not true.

Many people have pointed out countless fields that require a degree to get in.  I couldn't get a Mech. Engineering job without a degree.  I love cars and racing.  There's simply no way I'd ever be able to get my dream job designing race cars without a degree.  Even with it, it's diffuclt as hell.  FYI, as a co-op (think intern for a long period of time), I make double the manager of the workers who has 15 years work experience, 5 supervising.  That's as a punk 19 year old kid with a year of college under my belt.

Plus, college costs me 2500 a year at a top 20-25 (depending on the list) engineering school.  That's less than childcare.

Well, women are pretty much screwed no matter what.  I used to see them with jobs like secretaries and bank tellers and think that they were doing so well.  Then, I later found out what those jobs paid.  There IS a glass ceiling.  As for homosexuals, I guess if the lesbians like boobs, they're gonna be okay.  For the gay guys, I guess their only  hope is man-boobs.

I think they just need a "I slaved for 3 years doing something hard" certification equivalency to college. Like for instance, forming a colony of people and living out in the boonies for 12 months with no lights/running water and just hand tools. Because in many ways, they don't care what you did in college, only that you slaved and were decicated enough to have it.

thansk for telling me this 2 years later

now I feel bad that I'm in college =(

College is good because you get an education and being knowledgeable = good.  It is a well known fact that college grads get higher paying jobs.

That being said,saying you need a college degree for a high paying job is incorrect.  You work hard and work in jobs that requires skills and experience and room to grow and you'll find a high paying job in 5-10 years.

Saying college degrees are a waste of time is just false tho.  You still stand a higher chance of getting a well paying job with a college degree than without one.  Think of it this way, high school needs to work hard to get a great job after 5 years.  college grad needs to study, while partying and getting laid to get a great job after 4years.  Both options run the risk of getting screwed if you slack off.  The college route has a higher chance of success, but you're screwed so much harder if you fail.

What is retarded however is going for a PhD.  so effing retarded. 

It all depends on what kind of college (or university) degree you are getting. In general, people with degrees in Computer Science, Engineering and Management tend to have much lower unemployment and higher wages than the typical college (or university) graduate; and those college (or university) graduates tend to have lower unemployment and higher wages than the average.

Where a degree becomes more of a waste of time, effort and money is when you’re in other fields where they graduate 10 (or more) students for every employment or graduate position available; and this leaves 90% (or more) of those students having spent tens (or hundreds) of thousands of dollars to do a job they would have been qualified for without their degree.

With that said, the people I know who are the most successful were the ones who went into the trades and started up their own businesses. To a certain extent I believe that this is driven by the over emphasis on a university education from my parents’ generation which created a massive shortage of qualified trades people; and if all the people who were taking useless degrees moved into the trades a university education would (potentially) become far more valuable again.

@OP, are you aware that those with degrees are more likely to get paid more money, more likely to get jobs (any kind really, even if they're not related to the degree whatsoever), and are statistically way more into freaky deaky sex?