You could do a lot of things with $185,000. You could live off of the $185,000 for at least a few years testing minimal viable products.
At a $185,000 price tag, you're buying yourself into a job in big three managerial consulting (McKinsey, Bain, Boston Consulting Group), or finance, which generally comes with a very nice starting salary, signing bonus, and a built-in career trajectory.
Most consultants are either deep in consulting in 10 years and making very nice money (mid to high 6 figures, low 7) as a partner or manager or have moved on to vice president or higher level positions at client organizations you've consulted for.
Totally different worlds.
It might not appeal to most HN readers but there's still a rational argument for the degree, even at this price.
Though I suspect $25K isn't even small a blip on the income statements of these people.
(Maybe VCs hate them since they try to create regular companies and that increases the value before VCs invest in them.)