I have always contended that it is a mistake for schools and society in general to push everyone toward a college education. I believe in balance.
Every city and region with a population to support it, should have a combined high school - junior college (grades 11,12,13,14)level - a technical school - to teach all the trades, drafting, culinary arts, bookkeeping, office skills, and on and on.
Colleges and universities are killing the country.
In Des Moines they had a technical high school housed in an old Ford Model T plant. It trained thousands of people to become successful electricians, woodworkers, plumbers and etc. In the 1980’s they transformed it in an advanced placement magnet school, which is fine, but who will train the nurses, tradesmen and the like?