A fast-growing number of traditionally college-age students are bypassing degrees to pursue cheaper and faster alternative credentials. Why are so many choosing this path, and will the journey pay off? Like a growing number of students coming out of high school, McDonough knew early on that he didn’t want to get a degree. Going to college felt like squandering time and money to him, and his parents agreed. “Oh, they love it,” McDonough said of the logging program. His dad told him “he would rather me actually do this than go to school, that I’d just waste time. I don’t want to go there anyways, so no point in spending a couple years at it.” He reached out to the logging program a few years ago while still in high school, and if the college had let him, he would’ve enrolled then and there. “I didn’t like school much,” he said. “I didn’t want to go through that again.”
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