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The topic is about which college program that can make someone rich, not a program that will teach you a profession that will allow you to earn x3-x5 average salary in your country. My definition of a rich person - a person who can allow himself not to work, and not to look at price when spending money. I cant name any college program that will make a gradue have life like that. Imo it does not matter what you study in college, as you need to have several sources of income, businesses, possible several degrees and 25 hours a day to dedicate to work. And only after years of such routine, you become rich.
The example you have given, a doctor with several clinics who earn $10-20k per month. I dont think that such person works as a doctor and study previously a lot (studied before mostly to understand working processes). Such person who own several clinics is a businessman at first, a manager, than a doctor. I cant imagine how come someone run a business of a several clinics, and still work in one of them as a doctor.
I advice first to try to organize business, then enlarge it and parallel start opening new office/business, and while being busy, try to work parallel as a doctor. Its either healing patients, or running a business. I dont think its possible to do both perfectly.
Absolute clarity here: no college program is engineered to manufacture the kind of “rich” you’re describing. No curriculum teaches compounding ownership, capital risk, psychological detachment from a day job, or how to convert boredom into assets. That’s not taught because, fundamentally, universities sell you expertise, not freedom. The economics of higher education: you pay for credentials, they certify your value to someone else’s business machine, and you hope that’s enough to pay for rent and one holiday a year
Even “elite” professions (doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc)can max out at “well-off”, not “free from the tyranny of time and price tags”. You’re pointing out the invisible curriculum: opportunity-seeking, multi-threading incomes, and the low-grade insanity of working every waking moment on your own machine
Most of those who break through to “can’t-see-the-price-tag” status are hybrids: part owner, part dealmaker, barely a specialist anymore. Many still think a degree is a cheat code for financial escape velocity. It’s not. It’s a ticket to the starting line, maybe. The real curriculum is endless risk tolerance, constant re-invention, and learning to stop being emotionally attached to your “profession” after a certain income level. That’s what the college brochures never say