“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”- Theodore Roosevelt Getting a college degree is worth it because it makes you more likely to be employed, make more money, and live a happy and healthy life. Looking first at obtaining employment, a major advantage college graduates possess is how they are more likely to be employed. One assertion skeptics make is that college graduates have difficulty finding a job. In reality though the unemployment rate for college graduates is less than half of those without a college degree. The unemployment rate for those in 2014 at least 25 years old with just a high school diploma is 6.3%, but opposite of this, for