If you want a much more in-depth analysis covering many more factors (including the larger cohort of people who begin college but never finish, thereby taking o

If you want a much more in-depth analysis covering many more factors (including the larger cohort of people who begin college but never finish, thereby taking on a great deal of the costs without most of the benefits) I cannot recommend Bryan Caplan's The Case Against Education, which comes to the controversial conclusion that higher education is selfishly advantageous for higher-achieving students but probably incurs greater costs than benefits for average-and-below students and society as a whole.