If someone else doesn’t voluntarily pay for your college education — whether through scholarship or writing checks for the tuition — you can always go two years to a community college while working full-time and then transfer to your four-year public university to finish up.
At two classes a semester, three semesters a year, you are done in six years top. You don’t have student loans and you have six years of work experience to boot!
College loans and scholarships are just one more area that the federal government should exit pronto.
18 years olds can only borrow $6500 a year. Those $100,000 + loans for an undergrad degree come from parents co-signing and taking out loans for the "dream school"
This year more of the kids in my area are enrolling in 2 year technical programs with real skills, as opposed to going off to college with vague plans.
Back in the Pleistocene (1968) a college degree supplied a diverse education. I paid $3200/year for a state school, including tuition, room, and board. Since then greed, unionization, and stupidity have pushed that to $42,000 and college had devolved into a trash heap of political SJW. Of course it is collapsing.