> Thousands of Americans are debt slaves for the rest of their life because they followed the consensus of "good" advice. The OP was asking for advice regardin

> Thousands of Americans are debt slaves for the rest of their life because they followed the consensus of "good" advice. The OP was asking for advice regarding a CS degree - high pay and low unemployment probably means there aren't many people in this field that could be considered "debt slaves" - regardless of the increasing cost of a degree. While I agree higher education costs have gone up far more than they should have over the last decade or two generally speaking a degree is still worth it: - "Despite these worrisome trends, going to college relative to not going still yields an annual rate of return of 15%" [1] - "millennial workers with only a high school education earned 61.5% of the annual income of similarly aged adults with a bachelor's degree" [2] - "workers with a bachelor's degree still earn about 75% more than high school grads, and over a lifetime, that payoff is huge" [3] [1] http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/07/10/the-grim-reason-college-is-still-worth-its-cost/ http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/07/10/the-grim-reason-col... [2] http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-mo-earnings-college-premium-0140211-story.html http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-mo-earnings-college-pr... [3] http://money.cnn.com/2014/06/24/news/economy/college-worth-it/ http://money.cnn.com/2014/06/24/news/economy/college-worth-i...