In Chattanooga, fewer than 25 percent of adults have finished a four-year college degree. But it doesn’t always take a diploma to get a good start on the road to success.
Still, some people insist: Go to college, do what you want. Don’t go to college, don’t expect to be in control of your own destiny.
In 2014, about 21 million Americans were enrolled in college. But that same year, only about 2 million four-year degrees were handed out.
But that doesn’t mean the drop-outs – or never-wents – will fail.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates, one of the richest men in America, is proof of that. So is billionaire businessman Mark Zuckerberg, who dropped out of Harvard to start Facebook.