Survey finds most Americans say four-year college degrees aren’t worth the cost

A. new survey NBC News found that two-thirds of Americans think a four-year college degree isn’t worth the cost.

The poll found that only 33% of registered voters agree that a four-year college degree is “worth the cost because people have a better chance of getting a good job and making more money over their lifetime.”

Sixty-three percent of Americans surveyed said they think a four-year college degree “is not worth the cost because people often graduate without specific job skills and with large amounts of debt to pay off,” NBC reported.

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Americans were roughly split on this question in a 2017 poll.

Forty-nine percent believed the degree would be worth the cost, while 47% said it wasn’t worth it.

CNBC reportedly asked the same question in 2013 as part of its All-America Economic Survey. 53 percent said a degree was worth the investment, while 40 percent said it was not.

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Forty-nine percent of respondents believed the degree would be worth the cost, according to a 2017 survey; but a clear majority of registered voters now think it’s not worth it. (iStock)

The average tuition and fees, as well as room and board, for a private four-year college was around $58,600 in the 2024-2025 school year. According to CNBC.

A Democratic pollster who helped conduct the survey told NBC that the shift in polling was “remarkable” and said the promise that a college degree would lead to a better life seemed dubious to many Americans.

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“What’s really surprising is that everyone has moved. Not just people without a college degree,” Jeff Horwitt of Hart Research Associates told NBC.

(The cost and value of a college degree for many Americans is open to debate.)