Mark Zuckerberg says college isn’t preparing students for today’s job market—this and the debt burden will create a ‘reckoning’ for higher education

Mark Zuckerberg (Credit: David Paul Morris—Bloomberg - Getty Images)

• Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, despite dropping out of Harvard, still values college for the life experiences and relationships it offers—such as meeting his wife and future business partners—rather than its role in career preparation. However, he voiced concerns about the current college system for being costly, leaving many students in debt, and not adequately preparing them for today’s job market. He added that society's views are shifting on the necessity of a degree.

Mark Zuckerberg is one of a handful of famous billionaires who dropped out of college, yet he's still an advocate of higher education. That being said, the Meta founder backed college as an opportunity for life experience as opposed to career prospects.