Ouch--the thought of that debt is just staggering. That is currently more than my mortgage and student loan combined. BU is a great school--not for $200K though. I can't image that there are that many degrees in which $200K is worth it...

Well that is just dumb.

If you're young and don't know what you want to study, and change your major a few times, then yes, you should not be doing it while paying $56k a year. Leaving to go work for a while would be smarter until you lock it down a bit more.

But just drop the "i left BU to do awesome work" thing and how much academia held you back from doing that awesome work.

As a current Boston University student, in a major with one of the highest starting salaries - I can certainly say that 200k is truly not worth the money regardless of major.

Any student not on scholarship, who is paying that full amount, is better off dropping out and getting a cheaper.