Tyler Cowen: Is College Still Worth It?

Should you still go to college? At this point you really have to start to wonder. The prices get higher and higher. Paying a fortune for Stanford is one thing, but $95,000 a year for George Washington University, room and board included, is another. The school is ranked 59th by U.S. News & World Report. I know that is only a sticker price, and not the final charge, but as a starting point for negotiations it is ridiculous.It gets worse. It seems that more and more jobs will require AI skills of some kind, yet few major universities are embracing AI instruction as a general practice. The computer science departments have done plenty, but humanities departments, law schools, and many other parts of our universities are working to ban or restrict AI. That enterprise is doomed to fail; profess