My daughter is an Art major. Her undergrad is paid by grandparents who left the money but she is on her own after college.
Every day closer to graduation, she sees the handwriting on the wall a little clearer.
I think unless you’re going for a marketable skill (engineering, accounting, etc.), it’s better to pass on college.
Even engineering is iffy now. There are a lot of unemployed engineers.
Back in the day, college was cheap, so you didn’t end up owing your soul to the company store.
But as with healthcare, gov’t intervention to make it affordable had the opposite effect.