If you really want to got to college, local comunity colleges are much cheaper than state schools or private colleges. If you already went to college and have tones of loans hanging over your head, your best bet is to start living cheap now, but keep working full-time so you can pay off those loans as fast as posible. It's almost impossible to live cheap and work less with school loans weighing you down. Even if the mamgement job is supposed to be part-time, you will end up working more. Don't buy a car.
Cars are so expensive and in larger towns and cities, mostly useless.
On top of the cost of the car itself, there are finance charges, registration, gas, repairs and the big one, insurance. Get a bike, use public transportation, but don't buy a car. If you live in a group, you might want to keep one car to use for road trips and shopping. In that case you can share the costs of gas and insurance, and it won't be so expensive. Then, when they have a good bit of cash saved up, they quit and live for as long as possible on the money they have saved.