Millennials are increasingly doubting that college was worth the cost

College graduates who earned their degrees in the last decade are less likely than previous generations to say their education was worth the price, a new Gallup poll found. While 50 percent of all grads "strongly agree" that college was worth the cost, only 38 percent of graduates since 2006 can say the same:

While spiking college costs undoubtedly have influenced this calculation for recent alumni, Gallup has found that productive personal relationships with professors — and particularly the belief that professors "cared about me as a person" — were the single greatest correlative with a positive assessment of whether college was worth it.

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