Originally Posted by Dude
Originally Posted by Bostonian
If college education is largely about signaling, as Bryan Caplan (the interviewee below and author of the recent book, "The Case Against Education") suggests,

Well, it seems pretty obvious that a college education is largely about education.
My older son is planning to major in computer science. A 4-year degree costs as much as $290K. If college were largely about education, we would have him take MOOCs (he has already taken intro CS and machine learning MOOCs) and use the money to help him (for example) by a house some day. Because the credential matters as much as the knowledge, we are not going to do that.