Powerful Credentials By Michael W. Lynch People worry a lot about the cost of college.
Parents fret about paying the bills.
Think-tank sages pull their chins and fret about rising tuition and levels of student debt. There's no question that college costs some serious dough. But maybe all that expense and debt is worthwhile. How much a college education costs may be less important than how much a college education might be worth. Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that, in 1999, college graduates earned 76 percent more than people whose education ended with high school.