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Across the country, poor starving college students are subsisting on Ramen noodles and insulating their drafty apartments with stacks of unpaid bills.

Is a college degree worth the hassle?

With tuitions soaring and the job market remaining tight, it doesn’t take a college degree to grasp that students graduating with a massive debt are in a tough situation.

The Huffington Post Investigative Fund has put faces and names on the indebted. They ahve launched a startling series in which college students discuss their thoughts and fears on the size of their personal debt.

Many students and graduates offer warnings for those entering university. James Moreau, an undergraduate at Suffolk University said,

“ I really wish I had taken classes at a state school rather than paid the premium cost of private education that didn’t get me much more.”

Across the pond, officials in the U.K. are focusing on the lack of jobs available for graduates. They are proposing a system in which major programs would be required to compile and release data about the employment and salary prospects of the degrees offered.

The goal is to provide incoming freshman with the materials to make informed choices about courses and job opportunities.

Here in the U.S. the Department of Education has just launched a new web site listing college’s tuition, the rate of tuition increase, and the total cost of attending each institution.

The web site will enable students to see at the click of a button the schools with the highest and lowest tuitions (where does your college rate?).

Knowledge is power, but will being informed about the real costs of college help?

Or will Ramen noodles the meal of choice for the next generation of students?