I can't even imagine paying that kind of money for an education. To make that up would take most of your career for most people when one of the points of an edu

I can't even imagine paying that kind of money for an education. To make that up would take most of your career for most people when one of the points of an education is to increase your average salary over not having bothered. If the delta between those two doesn't work out for most of your career, you may as well not bother. The interesting bit is that, at least in the U.S., one can go to decent schools relatively cheaply. In-state tuition at state schools is anywhere from 1:4 to 1:12 ratios with private and out-of-state schools (that is to say, a person could get an entire B.x. and M.x. at a public school for about the same cost as a semester or year at a private institute).