How much is a university degree worth nowadays? According to most Americans, not much.
New findings from Gallup show that the perceived importance of going to college has reached a new low. Only a third (35%) of U.S. adults think that a college education is “very important,” compared with 40% who say it is “fairly important” and 24% who say it is “not too important.”
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This diminished confidence in the value of higher education speaks to a long-standing downward trend, captured as far back as 2010, according to Gallup’s polling. This declining attitude has been observed across all groups in society, regardless of sex, age, race, education level, or political identification.
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