I was asked this question a few weeks ago and of course I have thought about it. I think about it every time I write a check to pay one of my student loans.

For me it is a hard question to answer. I Graduate with a Bachelors of Science in Integrated Marketing Communications from Winthrop University. I went to college basically because I didn’t really know what else to do.

As far as an education the college I went to was a medium sized school near Charlotte, so it was a great atmosphere and close to a lot of stuff.

I have been out of college for almost 5 years now, but I was very different than most of the people I graduated with. I never went out and actually looked for a job. I already knew I wanted to work in a niche area of real estate and was confident enough to just go out and start doing it on my own. By doing that I quickly realized how the Internet was going to play a huge role in shaping the future of the industry. The industry still has a long way to go.

But for me college was worth the money, not for the education I got in the class room, but for what I learned outside of it. Personally I grew up in a small town and going off to college exposed me to a ton of new people with different idea and ways of life. Like many kids in the US I basically grew up with the same group of kids I started Kindergarten with.

College taught me how to meet people. If I wouldn’t have went I would probably be still hanging out with the same group of kids I grew up with and never went outside of my original group of friends.

The people skills I learned in college have been priceless.

So in short, yes college was worth the money. Plus I did learn a lot of the finer points of marketing and creating full integrated marketing plans and saying that is kind of what I do, I guess it did serve its purpose.