Edit: Don't get me wrong, that's still a huge pile of money for a worthless degree, or something you should have learned "on the job"... But it's a long way off $100k+
* The degrees you're interested in
* The total cost of ownership of each of those degrees, based on the dollar cost + interest
* The years you'll have to work to pay off the degree based on the median salary of whatever career requires that degree
* Placement rate in the career you're obtaining you're degree for after obtaining your education (colleges usually fudge the numbers here by considering a student getting any job as "placement" after going through their pipeline)
Very similar to truth in lending requirements for credit cards and mortgages.
https://www.occ.treas.gov/topics/consumer-protection/truth-i...
At the very least, they will give you a best-case scenario instead of a worst-case or median-case.
Forcing nearly everyone into the college-bound track is a huge problem. Politically, vocational training is deemed classist or racist, and such utopianism creates a sad disservice to lots of young people who could be learning skilled trades and setting themselves up for comfortable living.
Just like everyone at the university level is not med-school material, not every high schooler is college material.