- educated people live longer (Harvard study etc. http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/educated-people-live-longe...)

- the S&P is possibly driven by people who went to college and started companies; if nobody did that, where would it be?

- average results tell the individual nothing about his/her best choice, so the headline is a bit detrimental. There are successful UHNW entrepreneurs both with and without college degrees and plenty of unsuccessful people with college degrees

- note that Payscale uses median pay to calculate ROI from colleges; all extremely successful people with very high incomes are not reflected in the data.