Blue Ridge Community College's Student Recreation Center is shown as the lead image for the VidCast. This is our second Vidcast for college decision month. Today – we will discuss why community college is a great choice and should be in every high school student’s college choice set. College decision-making is surprisingly complex, College decision-making has many criteria and deciding what is important to you. Plus, since the decision is new to most students, it creates even

Research and intuition point in the same direction. The returns to college are very beneficial. Whether in money-benefit return, personal psyche-benefit return, or society-benefit return. But there are two sides to the College ROI question: both the return achieved (the "R") AND how much one pays to achieve that return (the "I"). After 40 years of 2x the rate of inflation college cost increases, the cost of higher ed has exploded. Savvy families are now taking a scalpel