There are a lot of alternatives being tested out right now. Most of them do a great job of the training and certification parts of college. The problem is tha

There are a lot of alternatives being tested out right now. Most of them do a great job of the training and certification parts of college. The problem is that we've also loaded in a "maturation/social growth" responsibility onto college. It's a place where teenagers can move out and meet people their age from different places and do dumb things with minimal consequences. Lots of people argue that this, and the networking opportunity, are the far greater part of the value of college, and nobody seems to have a good alternative for that.