No people get quite upset if the degree is worthless . They don ' t . There ' s few stats here , but I ' d estimate a third of recent graduates as in going back to 2008 are stuck in nongraduate jobs in the US , it ' s much higher again in the UK . We ' d be somewhere in between judging by other metrics . Noone seems to give a fuck . In this environment where people spend $ 40 k in addition to another $ 40 k from the taxpayer and forego 4 years of earnings to get these useless degrees I can ' t imagine why anyone would get pissed off at foregoing wages for only 12 weeks . It ' s fucking nothing in the grand scheme of things , it may very well make the difference between earning $ 2 million over your lifetime or $ 3 million roughly the difference between those who end up in skilled occupations and those that don ' t . Save up some money beforehand , it ' s really not that hard . This is why boomers think millennials are all precious snowflakes .