It Costs Over $10 Million in Opportunity Cost to Go to College

[ItsNeverTheLionsYear]

I don't buy it. The $10 million figure assumes a bunch of things:

1. You are paying for college out of pocket
   
2. You could invest the money that you would otherwise spend on college
   
3. The market will provide a consistent return on investment (not a given!)
   
4. You would not leverage your college degree to get a better, higher paying career
   
5. Your college degree would help you get into a job that would extend your working life, i.e. get you a desk job instead of manual labor. I put in my time as a landscaper and boy did I not have any coworkers or even bosses above the age of 50. 
   

Even the article points out that college is worth it if you invest more than $14,640 a year above what you'd be putting away otherwise.