The great majority of colleges don’t make financial sense for their students anymore.

New York Post reports.

No, college isn’t always the way to get ahead

There’s a catchy commercial on the air right now, for the University of Phoenix, an online college. To the tune of “If I only had a brain” from the Wizard of Oz, images of hard-working people, nose in the book, work toward that online degree.

The lyrics insist “a degree is a degree” and “you’re gonna want someone like me” while adding “and I’ve also got a brain.”

Why having a brain means getting a degree from a questionable online college is unclear, but the idea that getting more schooling is always the best way to make more money has been ingrained in our national psyche for some time now, and the commercial plays right into that.

And it couldn’t be more wrong.