In the US college degrees are HS diploma 2.0 and outside of STEM or Law do more to get you a job than represent any real knowledge. This isn't to say that you won't learn anything in those classes, but if we are being honest business degrees don't teach you **** and things like Liberal Arts degrees(rare as they are) or whatever aren't going to apply to any job you're likely to get.
So we move into the area of self-education. Personally I've leanred more reading on my own than I have in any classroom, the majority of which I've found lacking tbh. Perhaps that just comes with the territory of the degree I'm pursuing, but that is what my experience has been. But I'm willing to be most people don't try to self-educate, because taking care of a kid while working a 40 hour a week job sucks up most of their time.
I'm too hungover to put much more thiught into this, but higher education costs too much and teaches too little and you should be doing some reading if you have the time.