I am sure critical thinking is a good thing to have. I am questioning if critical thinking is worth 200K of student loans for most people.

If your eventual major is engineering,medicine,finance,law etc. in a brand-name university, one can make an argument that a few hundred K of student loans are still worth it.

For everyone else who will only have “critical thinking” to show for after the college, is the education worth the student loans? Is it better to go to community colleges, stay home and then transfer to a state college in this case?