...Have you seen job requirements recently? For that matter, have you been paying attention to what people say to kids?
"made"... well, not if you require a gun at someone's head to "make" them. On the other hand, if you think being constantly told by everyone around you that you HAVE to go to College to succeed isn't going to convince people to go...
Even useful degrees can easily saddle you with an absurd degree of debt whose stacking interest can fairly rapidly outpace your ability to make payments with your initial low level job.
You know, marriage being a stable economic situation is ending. And a lot of it is because hey, guess what, jobs requiring college degrees and college degrees being absurdly expensive aren't just issues for women.